The repressed expressed : novel perspectives on African and black diasporic literature / edited by Bill F. Ndi, Adaku T. Ankuma, Benjamin Hart Fishkin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Francis Nyamnjoh's The disillusioned African : a philosophy of liberation / Yosimbom Hassan Mbiydzenyuy -- 2. The playwright as whistleblower : drama and the expression of the repressed in Cameroon / Emmanuel Fru Doh -- 3. Bill F. Ndi's Gods in the ivory towers : an expression of universal academic tragedy / Richard Evans -- 4. Francis Nyamnjoh's Soul's forgotten : a rejection of poor education and failing democracy / Benjamin Hart Fishkin -- 5. Nyamnjoh's Homeless waters : juvenile rebellion and old age recollection / Bill F. Ndi -- 6. Rising from the ashes : conflict and repression in Bill F. Ndi's poetry / Antonio Jimenez-Munoz -- 7. Yearning for a distance : prophetic narrative in Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd vine (1934) / Rhonda Collier -- 8. The plight of a woman expressed in Jing's Tale of an African woman / Adaku T. Ankumah -- 9. Emmanuel Fru Doh's Nomads : the memoirs of a Southern Cameroonian : censorship, treachery and instability in former British Southern Cameroons / Benjamin Hart Fishkin -- 10. Francis B. Nyamnjoh's A nose for money : airing devoiced thoughts / Bill F. Ndi.

Through multiple points of resistance, The Repressed Expressed underscores how hard it is to build a community in any nation with no beneficial qualities of hope and transparency. This informative collection of essays highlights that wherever stability and order are lacking, the universal appeal is to express that which is suppressed. Also, like a map or guidebook, The Repressed Expressed indicates how people in such geographical prisons strive to transform their agitation into spiritual and political pathways, free of pain and hurt from, and anger towards a dirty and corrupted world. It thus, underpins discord and brings to the fore the authority's penchant for heaping abuse upon those caused to live in fear. In short, The Repressed Expressed is an impressive compilation of literary evidence informing scholarship on opinions and beliefs relating to repression, its expression, and the immeasurable associated cost.

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