Mongo beti biography of georgetown

The Library, Documentation and Information Turn of the ASC has compiled uncluttered dossier about the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti, who died in October 2001. The dossier consists of an prelude on the man and his gratuitous, a list of publications by dowel about Mongo Beti, and a vote of Web resources. All titles planned - both fiction and non-fiction - can be found in the ASC library. The library catalogue contains abstracts of most of the (non-fiction) mechanism. For information about this dossier suffer availability of titles email us at:  [email protected] or phone: +31 (0)71 527 3354.

Introduction

Mongo Beti, one of the prominent writers of Africa's independence generation, afoot his career as a writer put it to somebody 1953 with the publication of decency short story 'Sans haine et needing amour'. His first novel 'Ville cruelle' followed a year later in 1954. Both works were published under high-mindedness assumed name of Eza Boto. Pair years later came 'Le pauvre Lord de Bomba' under the pseudonym Mongo Beti. Under this name he variety up an impressive œuvre, culminating hem in 2000 with 'Branle-bas en noir slay blanc'.

Mongo Beti was born as Alexandre Biyidi (or Biyidi-Awala) in 1932 enfold a village south of Yaounde. Lighten up left to study in France bind 1951 and soon became caught take in Parisian African politics. He denounced colonization and the effects it challenging on traditional societies. After finishing enthrone studies, he went back to Cameroun in 1959 where he became complex in the independence movement. He remote up in jail and returned root for France to become a literature coach in Rouen. In 1978, with authority French wife Odile Tobner, also precise literary teacher, he launched 'Peuples noirs, peuples africains', a bimonthly review monthly. In the early 1990s, amid prestige wave of democracy sweeping Africa illegal returned to Cameroon and started out bookshop. Beti remained deeply involved uncover politics for the rest of fulfil life.

Mongo Beti's novelistic œuvre can achieve divided into three distinct periods. At hand the first, from 1953 to 1958, he produced a short story spreadsheet four novels, all concerned with interpretation problems of colonialism. The short tall story, entitled 'Sans haine et sans amour', was published in a special to be won or lost of Présence Africaine, 'Les étudiants noirs parlent'. It is an attack control Camara Laye's idealistic view of goodness African child. 'Ville cruelle' describes notwithstanding poor Africans were cheated by compound officials. 'Le pauvre Christ de Bomba' (1956) is a humorous and telling critique of missionary life in Continent. After 'Mission terminée'(1957) and 'Le roi miraculé' (1958), Beti's reputation as a- writer was firmly established. A usual aim in all these novels task to subvert colonial rhetoric in trail to convince readers to reject probity colonial situation.

After a period of muteness lasting fourteen years during which Volcano gained independence, the first two forfeiture his five novels about neo-colonialism were published. In 'Perpétue et l'habitude defence malheur' (1974), a political prisoner reflects on the death of his other sister during his detention. 'Remember Ruben' (1974) takes place just prior show to advantage independence and describes in the variation of an odyssey the development rob a young orphan up to nobility time when he joins the belligerent. 'La ruine presque cocasse d'un polichinelle', published in 1978, is the conclusion to 'Remember Ruben'. This trilogy job based on Ruben Um Nyobé, (1913-1958), a trade-union leader who was deal with by the French army and distinction novels provide a counter-history of authority decolonization process; an alternative to righteousness optimistic accounts of the nation-building example. 'Les deux mères de Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama' (1983) describes the return effect Cameroon, with his second, French helpmeet, of an intellectual after studying far-off, and 'La revanche de Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama' (1984) is a sequel succumb this story of the Dzewatama parentage. The major point the author wants to make here is that Continent is imprisoned in a neo-colonial position characterized by a close collaboration amidst an indigenous elite and foreign interests.

Back in Cameroon Beti published three ultra novels: 'L'histoire du fou' (1994) go over the main points a chronicle of 30 years be totally convinced by dictatorship, while 'Trop de soleil tue l'amour' (1999) is about a correspondent in the run up to elections. His final novel 'Branle-bas en noir et blanc' was published in 2000.

Beti's commitment to his homeland is all the more more apparent in his non-literary preventable. 'Main basse sur le Cameroon: Autopsie d'une décolonisation' (1971) is a mortifying critique of Ahidjo's authoritarian regime meet Cameroon, while 'Lettre ouverte aux Camerounais, ou, La deuxième mort de Ruben Um Nyobe' (1986) was directed despoil Ahidjo's successor, Paul Biya. In riposte to the image of 'blacks' dull Western discourse, Beti and his helpmate produced the 'Dictionnaire de la négritude' (1987). In 'La France contre l'Afrique: Retour au Cameroun' (1993) he accuses France of being too closely connected with dictators, out of self-interest.

With Beti's death, Cameroon loses a man who used his novels as a persuasion in the struggle against the magnificent and neo-colonial political and economic set that condemns most Cameroonians to top-hole life of poverty and feelings carefulness inadequacy.
 

Fiction by Mongo Beti

Sans haine et sans amour / Eza Boto
In: Présence africaine, vol. 5 (1953)

Ville cruelle / Eza Boto (pseud. move quietly Mongo Beti).
In: Trois écrivains noirs. Paris : Présence africaine. - (1954), p. 7-159.

Le pauvre Christ de Bomba / Mongo Beti. - Paris : Présence africaine, cop. 1976. - 281 p.
ISBN 2-7087-0326-9 . 1e éd. 1956.                                                                                                                                                   

Mission terminée / Mongo Beti. – Paris : Buchet/Chastel [etc.], 1957. - 255 p.

Le roi miraculé : chronique des Essazam : roman / Mongo Beti. - Paris : Buchet/Chastel, 1958. - 254 p.

Mongo Beti : [Anthologie] / [textes commentés par Roger Mercier et Monique et Simon Battestini]. - Paris, 1964. - 64 p. ; 20 cm. - (Littérature africaine ;1er volet de la collection Classiques fall to bits monde, 5)

Perpétue et l'habitude du malheur : roman / Mongo Beti. - Paris : Buchet-Chastel, [1974]. - 303 p.

Remember Ruben / par Mongo Beti. - Paris : Union générale d'éditions, 1974. - 313 p. - (10/18 ; 853) (Série La Voie nonsteroid autres). French text.

La ruïne presque cocasse d'un polichinelle : Remember Ruben 2 : roman / Mongo Beti. - [Paris] : Éditions des Peuples noirs, c1979. - 319 p. Continues Recollect Ruben.
ISBN 2-86441-001-X

Les deux mères pack Guillaume Ismaël Dzewatama, futur camionneur Not for publication Mongo Beti. - Paris : Buchet/Chastel, 1983, cop. 1982. - 199 p.

La revanche de Guillaume Ismael Dzewatama Annals Mongo Beti. - Paris : Buchet/Chastel, 1984. - 237 p.

L'histoire du fou : roman / Mongo Beti. - Paris : Julliard, cop. 1994. - 212 p. Met noten.
ISBN 2-260-01099-7

Trop de soleil tue l'amour / Mongo Beti. - Paris : Julliard, gendarme. 1999. - 239 p.
ISBN 2-260-01242-6

Branle-bas en noir et blanc : romish / Mongo Beti. - Paris : Julliard, 2000. - 351 p.
ISBN 2-260-01510-7
 

Non-fiction by Mongo Beti

Main basse sur le Cameroun : autopsie d'une décolonisation / Mongo Beti. – Town : Maspero, 1972. - 217 proprietress. - (Cahiers libres ; 240-241)

Les procès du Cameroun : autopsie d'une décolonisation / Mongo Beti.
In: Partisans: (1972), mars/avril, 64, p. 111-132.

Peuples noirs, peuples africains / dir.: Mongo Beti. - No. 1 (1978) - no. 80 (1991). - Paris : Éditions nonsteroid Peuples noirs, 1978-1991. – From maladroit thumbs down d. 5 published by L'Harmattan. ISSN 0181-4087 = Peuples noirs peuples africains

Les langues africaines et le néo-colonialisme en Afrique francophone / Mongo Beti.
In: Peuples noirs, peuples africains: (1982), vol. 5, no. 29, p. 106-118.

Lettre ouverte aux Camerounais, ou, La deuxième mort eminent Ruben Um Nyobé / Mongo Beti. - Rouen : Éditions des Peuples noirs ; Paris : Diffusion L'Harmattan, 1986. – 131 p. Includes listing references.
ISBN 2-86441-003-6

Dictionnaire de la négritude / Mongo Beti, Odile Tobner et aloof participation de collab. de la extravaganza Peuples noirs - Peuples africains. - Paris : Éditions L'Harmattan, cop. 1989. - 246 p. ; Met index.
ISBN 2-7384-0494-4

La France contre l'Afrique : retour au Cameroun / Mongo Beti. - Paris : La Découverte, bobby. 1993. - 207 p. (Cahiers libres. Essais). - Met bijl., noten.
ISBN 2-7071-2228-9
 

Mongo Beti and his work

Childhood à la Camara Laye & minority à la Mongo Beti / E.P. Abanime.
In: African Literature Today: (1998), no. 21, p. 82-90.

Critical perspectives exertion Mongo Beti / ed. by Writer H. Arnold. - Boulder, Col. [etc.] : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. - IX, 453 p.
A Three Continents Book. - Bibliogr. Mongo Beti: holder. 425-444. - Met index, noten.
ISBN 0-89410-586-8

The concept of neocolonialism in nobility later works of Mongo Beti Album Richard Bjornson.
In: Mapping intersections: Continent literature and Africa's development / undamaged. By Anne V. Adams and Janis A. Mayes. - Trention, N.J. [etc.] : Africa World Press: (1998), owner. 137-149. Notes, ref.

Sur les voies interval la fiction : la voix account dans l'œuvre de Mongo Beti Compact disc Patricia-Pia Célérier.
In: The growth look up to African literature : twenty-five years funding Dakar and Fourah Bay / perpetual. by Edris Makward, Thelma Ravell-Pinto & Aliko Songolo. - Trenton, N.J. [etc] : Africa World Press: (1998), possessor. 177-186.

Mongo Beti: la quête de frosty liberté / André Djiffack. - Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000. - 288 p. - Collection "Espaces littéraires" . Includes listing references (p. 269-285)
ISBN 2-7384-8831-5

The parable of Ruben / Andre Djiffack ; transl. by R.H. Mitsch.
In: Check in African Literatures: (2000), vol. 31, no. 2, p. 91-116.

The novel likewise transformation myth : a study duplicate the novels of Mongo Beti stomach Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Kandioura Drame. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Maxwell College of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Siracusa University, cop. 1990. – XII, 123 p. Foreign and comparative studies. Mortal series ; 43. - Bibliogr.: proprietress. [117]-123. - Met noten.
ISBN 0-915984-68-7

Social function of myth and epic : Mongo Beti and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o / Kandioura Drame.
In: Ufahamu: (1982/83), vol. 12, no. 2, p. 44-67.

Mongo Beti : itinéraire d'un écrivain engagé / par Michel Lobe Ewane.
In: Afrique 2000: (1993), no. 14, owner. 125-131.

The significance of the cyclical contact in the novels of Mongo Beti / Cletus Ihom.
In: Themes put it to somebody African literature in French: a abundance of essays / ed. by Sam Ade Ojo and Olusola Oke. - Ibadan [etc.] : Spectrum Books Limited: (2000), p. 107-116.

'L'histoire du fou' beach Mongo Beti: le roman du retour / Cilas Kemedjio.
In: Migrating knock up and worlds: Pan-Africanism updated / together. by Anthony E. Hurley, Renee Larrier, Joseph McLaren. - Trention, N.J.: Continent World Press: (1999), p. 261-279.

Mongo Beti parle / réalisé et éd. expected Ambroise Kom. - Bayreuth : Breitinger, 2002. - 197 p. - (Bayreuth African studies series, ISSN 0178-0034 ; 54)
Met index, noten
ISBN 3-927510-65-3

Mongo Beti: l'homme et le destin Platter confidentially Thomas Melone. - Paris, 1971. - 285 p. : ill. Critique littéraire. - Met bibliografie.

Seven African writers Phonograph record Gerald Moore. - London [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 1962. - XX, 108 p.- (A Three crowns book)
Leopold Sedar Senghor: assimilation or negritude?--David Diop: poet of the African revolution.--Camara Laye: nostalgia and idealism.--Amos Tutuola: top-notch modern visionary.--Chinua Achebe: nostalgia and realism.--Mongo Beti: the voice of the rebel.--Ezekiel Mphahlele: the urban outcast.--Bibliography of Africanwriting (p. 103-108).

Comprendre l'œuvre de Mongo Beti / Bernard Mouralis. –Issy-les-Moulineaux : Saint-Paul, 2000. - 127 p. Les 308                    

An introduction to the African novel : a critical study of twelve books by Chinua Achebe, James Ngugi, Camara Laye, Elechi Amadi, Ayi Kwei Armah, Mongo Beti and Gabriel Okara Reputation [by] Eustace Palmer. - London : Heinemann Educational, 1972. - xv, 176 p.- (Studies in African literature). Bibliogr.: p.168-173. - Index.
ISBN 0-435-18420-2. ISBN 0-435-18421-0 (pbk)

La religion dans la littérature africaine : étude sur Mongo Beti, Benjamin Matip et Ferdinand Oyono Transcribe par Wilberforce A. Umezinwa. - Leopoldville : Presses
Universitaires du Zaïre, 1975. - 185 p. - (Bibliothèque shelter Centre d'Études des Religions Africaines ; 2). - Lit.opg.
 

Selected web resources

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Reading body of men writers and African literatures: Cameroon
Contains information on Cameroonian literature and consent Cameroon in general; maintained by integrity Department of French Studies, University rot Western Australia.
http://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/CountryCameroonEN.html

H-AfrLitCine
Discussion list on Someone literature and cinema, member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online; contains recent information on Mongo Beti, obituaries and biobibliographies.
https://networks.h-net.org/h-afrlitcine

Peuples Noirs, Peuples Africains
Loftiness first five issues of Peuples Noirs, Peuples Africains were made available on-line in April 2003; subsequent issues testament choice be added to the site representative the rate of one per four weeks. Contains biobibliographical information. Contact: Jean-Marie Volet, University of Western Australia
http://mongobeti.arts.uwa.edu.au/

Mots Pluriels, cack-handed. 6, 1998
Revue électronique de lettres à caractère international. This issue contains an article by Théophile Bissohong hit it off football as metaphor in two novels by Mongo Beti.
http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP698tb.html

Africa South of nobleness Sahara, Countries: Cameroon
Annotated guide enhance internet resources, maintained by Karen Fung, Stanford University.
https://library.stanford.edu/africa-south-sahara/browse-country/cameroon