Healing Stings is an astonishing collection of poems that depict a society battling social, global and postcolonial challenges. Through a combination of terse and elegantly composed verse, this collection provides viable tools with which to overcome the hassles and possibly check the erosion of time-honoured moral values. Using the linguistic channels of distinction, perception and representation, the discourses of moods, subjectivity, atmosphere, generic hybridity amongst others, Healing Stings demonstrates that social ills like corruption, greed, intolerance, delinquency, chauvinism, gender-sensitive biases, and religious and cultural prejudices can be curbed and society made a better place. This is premised on the assumption that the right tools such as social dialogue, patriotism, love, tolerance, honesty, good governance, personal and communal creative initiatives, and the change of mentality should be harnessed for improvement, educating, mending, and governing. By changing our attitudes within the context of unity in diversity, we are guaranteed a set of resources that will bring about development, security, national unity and peace building.
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 133 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-1-942876-14-4 (9781942876144)
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Pepertua K Nkamanyang LOLA holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. She has lectured in several universities in Cameroon including the Universities of Douala, Bamenda and Dschang. She has served as an editor and reviewer for the journal, The Gong and has published numerous articles in leading national and international journals. She is the author of the play, The Lock on My Lips (2014), which earned her the 2015 Eko Prize for Literature (Emerging Anglophone Writers), and Rustles on Naked Trees (2016), her début novel. She has worked in several administrative positions including Research and Documentation Officer (Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany), Deputy Mayor for Mbiame Council, Head of Service for Extra-African Cooperation (The University of Bamenda), and is currently the Cultural Attaché to the Cameroon High Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. Besides being a creative writer and critic, her teaching and core research interests are in the areas of the African Novel, Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Literary Theory and Criticism, Narratology and the narrative tradition, Postcolonial Criticism, Gender and Feminist Criticism, Cultures of Memory, and Theories of Identity.
