Table Of ContentFears, Doubts and Joys
of Not Belonging
Editors
Benjamin Hart Fishkin
Adaku T. Ankumah
Bill F. Ndi
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The Editors
Benjamin Hart Fishkin in his research has emphasized Nineteenth
Century British Literature through each phase of his education. Prior
to earning his Doctorate from the University of Alabama in May of
2009, he obtained a BA in English and Film from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MA from Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio where he examined the interest of Charles Dickens in the
theatre and how the stage influenced his novel writing. He has
published The Undependable Bonds of Blood: The Unanticipated Problems of
Parenthood in the Novels of Henry James. He recently co-edited, with
Adaku T. Ankumah, Bill F. Ndi and Festus Fru Ndeh, Outward Evil
Inward Battle: Human Memory in Literature. His recent research interest
now include amongst other things the problems of marriage and the
American family, and the relationship between the Blues and the
single-parent home in the works of William Faulkner, August Wilson,
and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Professor Fishkin joined Tuskegee University
in the fall of 2009. Before taking up this position at Tuskegee
University, Professor Fishkin was a Junior Fellow in The Blount
Undergraduate Initiative at the University of Alabama. He has won
several distinguished awards, including the Buford Boone Memorial
Fellowship, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Scholarship Award and
the George Mills Harper Graduate Student Travel Award.
Adaku T. Ankumah received her PhD in Comparative
Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a minor
in drama, her dissertation and initial research interests focused on
revolutionary playwrights from the African Diaspora, such as Kenyan
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Martiniquais writer Aimé Césaire, and African
American Amiri Baraka, who use their creative efforts to work for
the destruction of what they consider to be the colonial/capitalist
foundation of post-colonial Africa. Ngugi’s play The Trial of Dedan
Kimathi, a play that examines the arrest and trial of one of the famous
leaders of the Mau Mau revolt against the British in Kenya in the
1950’s, has been the subject of her published research. She has also
done research on the role of women in revolutionary theatre,
voicelessness of African women, and gender and politics in the works
of African women authors like Mariama Bâ, Ama Ata Aidoo and
Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Dr. Ankumah’s recent research interest includes the writings of
women in the African diaspora. This includes research on memory in
literature and its role in helping those dealing with painful,
fragmented pasts forge a wholesome future in Edwidge Danticat’s
The Dew Breaker. She has also examined memory and resistance in the
poetry of South African performer and writer Gcina Mhlophe. She
recently co-edited, with Bill F. Ndi, Benjamin Hart Fishkin and
Festus Fru Ndeh, Outward Evil Inward Battle: Human Memory in
Literature.
Bill F. Ndi earned his Doctorate from the University of Cergy-
Pontoise in 2001. He joined Tuskegee University in the fall of 2011.
His areas of teaching and research comprise among others English
Languages and literatures, French, Professional, Technical and
Creative Writing, World Literatures, Applied/Historical Linguistics,
Literary History, Media and Communication Studies, Peace/Quaker
Studies and Conflict Resolution, History of Internationalism, History
of Ideas and Mentalities, Translation & Translatology, 17th Century
and Contemporary Cultural Studies. He has published numerous
articles and book chapters in these areas. Professor Bill Ndi has also
published 10 volumes of poetry in English, 3 in French, a play and 3
works in translation. Amongst Professor Ndi’s peer reviewed
publications are the following: Edward Coxere’s Adventures by Sea,
(2012), Letters of Elizabeth Hooton, The First Woman Preacher, (2011),
Thomas Lurting’s The Fighting Sailor Turn’d Peaceable Christian, (2009)
(Annotated French Translations); “Names, an Envelope of Destiny
in the Grassfields of Cameron” and “Extending educational
boundaries” in Kumar, Pattanayak, Johnson – FFraming My Name,
(2010); Venuti, L. (ed.), The Translation Studies Reader in Australian
Review of Applied Linguistics (2008), [Vol. 31, No. 1: Pages 11.1-11.4,]
« Discours de la vengeance dans les journaux confessionnels Quakers
» in Marillaud, P & Gauthier R. La Vengeance et ses discours, «La
première contestation de l’esclavage», (A Translation) Paris, Présence
Africaine, « Quakerisme Originel et Milieu Maritime », in Augeron &
Tranchant LLa Violence et la Mer dans l’Espace Atlantique (XIIe-
XIXe), « Littérature des Quakers et Clinique de l'Âme » in Arts
Littéraires, Arts Cliniques (Literary Arts, Clinical Arts),
« Traduire le discours Quaker », in Traduire 2, «Globalization and
Global Ethics: A Quaker Concern» in Questioning
Cosmopolitanism. Finally, he recently co-edited, with Adaku T.
Ankumah, Benjamin Hart Fishkin and Festus Fru Ndeh, Outward Evil
Inward Battle: Human Memory in Literature.
Authors
Antonio J. Jimenez-Munoz is lecturer at the University of
Oviedo, Spain. His research takes on the influence of Romantic
literature and culture upon the present. His main line of research
deals with the influence of Romantic legacies in modern poetry and
art and particularly the material continuity of Romantic modes of
expression in contemporary art-forms. His fields of interest are
Literary Criticism, Theory, and World Poetry. Before his current
position, he was a Teaching Fellow at the universities of Kent at
Canterbury-UK (2001-2004) and Hull-UK (2004-2006), after
graduating in English Studies at the University of Cordoba (Spain) in
2001.
Blossom N. Fondo is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Theory
and Commonwealth Literature at the Higher Teacher’s Training
College of the University of Maroua, Cameroon. Her publications
have appeared in the IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Labyrinth:
A Journal of Postmodern Studies and Kaliao; The Multidisciplinary Journal of
the Higher Teachers’ Training College Maroua, and Reflections on World
Literature edited by Nilanshu Agrawal. Her main areas of interest are
postcolonial feminist theory, Anglophone Caribbean, African and
African-American Literatures. She is currently working on a
monograph on the representations of history in the postcolonial
novel with a focus on the novels of Michelle Cliff.
Emmanuel Fru Doh holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Ibadan and has taught in colleges and universities in Cameroon and
the United States since 1990. Poet, novelist, social and literary critic,
his research interests, with a remarkable interdisciplinary approach,
include Africa’s literatures, cultures, and politics; the African
diaspora; and colonial and postcolonial literatures. Doh has published
numerous substantial scholarly works, including Africa’s political
Wasteland: The Bastardization of Cameroon, and Stereotyping Africa:
Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions. He is currently teaching in the
Department of English at Century College in Minnesota.
Gloria Nne Onyeoziri is a professor of French at the University
of British Columbia. She published La Parole poétique d’Aimé Césaire
(L’Harmattan, 1992) and Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in
Postcolonial African Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2011). Other
recent publications include “In the Face of the Daughter: Feminist
Perspectives on Métissage as a Gendered Concept in the Works of
Maryse Condé” (in Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé, African World
Press, 2006) and “Gisèle Pineau et l’oralité mondialisée” (Nouvelles
études francophones, 2012).
Robert Alvin Miller teaches French and African Studies at the
University of British Columbia. He has published studies on J.M.G.
Le Clézio and other francophone authors including Simone and
André Schwarz-Bart, D. T. Niane and Aminata Sow Fall. Recent
studies include “Interface and Erasure in Le Clézio’s ‘Mondo’ and
Gatlif’s Mondo” (International Journal of Francophone Studies) and
“Communes hippies et autres communautés improvisées chez
Maryse Condé et J.M.G. Le Clézio” (in Diasporiques, F. Paré & T.
Collington, eds., Ottawa: Éditions David, 2013).
Adaku T. Ankumah is an Associate Professor of English at
Tuskegee University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Her areas of interest include women’s literature
(with a focus on African and Diaspora women) and the short story
genre.
Bill F. Ndi, poet, playwright, storyteller, literary critic, translator,
historian of ideas and mentalities as well as an academic has held
teaching positions in several universities in Australia, France and
elsewhere. He now teaches in the Department of English and
Foreign Languages at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA.
He has published numerous scholarly works on Early Quakerism and
translation of Early Quaker writings. He has also published poetry
and plays extensively in both the French and the English languages.
Benjamin Hart Fishkin is an Assistant Professor of English at
Tuskegee University, where he specializes in teaching Nineteenth
Century British Literature. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Alabama where he served as a Junior Fellow in The Blount
Undergraduate Initiative.
Table of Contents
Preface………………………………………………………….. ix
Introduction…………………………………………………….. xi
Section I: Prose and Verse on the Verge………………..……. 1
Chapter 1
Bill F. Ndi’s Social Angst and Humanist Vision: Politics,
Alienation and the Quest for Freedom in K’cracy, Trees in the Storm and
Other Poems. Emmanuel Fru Doh……………………………… 3
Chapter 2
In Moments Like These: Emmanuel Fru Doh and the Mirrors of
Romanticism. Antonio Jimenez-Munoz………………………. 31
Chapter 3
Warring Estrangement in Edward Coxere’s Adventures by Sea.
Bill F. Ndi……………………………………………………... 55
Section II: Outside Looking in………………………………. 81
Chapter 4
The Oppressed Out of the Circle: United Marginals in Francis B.
Nyamnjoh’s The Travail of Dieudonné. Adaku T. Ankumah………83
Chapter 5
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Pain of Exclusion. Benjamin Hart
Fishkin………………………………………………………… 107
Chapter 6
Minority Identity and the Question of Social Failure in John N.
Nkengasong’s Across the Mongolo. Blossom Ngum Fondo……… 125
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