The paper deals with several forms of censorship and self-censorship and examines the diverse reasons of the prohibition or restriction of a literary work. We have chosen three Cameroonian novelists, Ferdinand Oyono, Mongo Beti and Patrice Nganang and described how and by whom their novels or essays have been persecuted. The three novelists represent two generations of African literature of protest, “engaged” literature. They wrote against colonialism and later against the dictatorship established in Cameroon. But their political and social commitments were varied, which largely influenced their public image.
This paper is intended to be an analytical study of African identity and culture in Mongo Beti’s Completed Mission. It aims to shed light on the specificity of this society, the place that the individual occupies there and the transformations that it suffered with the arrival of the colonizer. It focuses first of all on the characters of the novel and their attributions in order to know how the social group, to which these entities belong, is constituted, structured and hierarchized. It then reconstructs the cultural aspects of black man’s life as suggested by the text.
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Cet article se veut une étude analytique de l’identité et de la culture africaine dans Mission terminée de Mongo Beti. Il a pour objectif de faire la lumière sur la spécificité de cette société, la place que l’individu y occupe et les transformations qu’elle a subies avec l’arrivée du colonisateur. Il est centré d’abord sur les personnages du roman et leurs attributions afin de savoir comment est constitué, structuré et hiérarchisé le groupe social auquel appartiennent ces entités. Il reconstitue ensuite les aspects culturels de la vie de l’homme noir tels qu’ils sont suggérés par le texte.
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