Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century Global Dispensation: Research in Language, Literature, and Education in Africa

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Rosalyn Mutia and Eric Enongene Ekembe (Editors)
Professor of American Literature, University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, and The Higher Teacher Training College (ENS) Yaounde, Cameroon

Series: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
BISAC: EDU037000

This peer-reviewed book adopts a multidisciplinary perspective to re-examine the complicated nature of societal challenges, resulting from man’s quest for an increasingly reduced world.

PART I: Interface Between Humanity and Contextual Realities

Chapter One discusses methodological innovations in teaching in Rwanda to postulate how culturally-adapted resources liberate learners from the top-bottom colonial pedagogy. Chapter Two derives from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse to establish that human beings, as replicated by Woof’s characters, seem to be much more defined by biochemical factors than by socioeconomic and cultural factors. Chapter Three posits the centrality of environmental factors in language learning in examining the effectiveness of instruction. Chapter Four exposes the double-edged international diplomacy, which victimised Sudan, and suggests solutions that anticipate the preventive diplomacy of the United Nations in the 20th and 21st centuries, with reference to D.H Lawrence’s The Rainbow.

PART II: Crossbreeding and Byproducts

Chapter Five examines political discourses in Taylor’s The Land of the Saracen to show how a redefinition of orientalism experienced by early Americans leads to an ambivalent Americanised orientalism. Chapter Six reviews principle axioms of postcolonial theory and asserts that literature teaching in Africa has shifted from exclusive literary dogmas to a multifactorial approach, which enhances human construction. Chapter Seven sees elderly people in Africa as mediators and socio-political mentors necessary for cross generational fertilization needed for sustainable development. Chapter Eight analyses ways through which both Nigerian and Cameroon English maintain their norm developing status according to Kachru’s concentric circle.

PART III: Identity, Religion, and Gender Sensitivity

Chapter Nine argues that the Book of Genesis in the Bible venerates women, contrary to Christian attributes of betrayal. It argues that God is not wholly potent and must learn from the failings of his creation to perfect his art. Chapter Ten examines gender roles in Cameroonian myths to argue that new societal trends are offshoots of images constructed by myths. Chapter Eleven explores the bond between the English language and education and challenges linguistic imbalances that undermine 21st Century Africa’s educational system. Chapter Twelve discusses women’s agentive roles in the spread of Islam as evident in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and contends that Rushdie empowers female prophetess as a way of eliminating values of subjugation in which they find themselves.

PART IV: Redefining Structures and Values

Chapter Thirteen contends that in postcolonial or postmodern contexts, rules on poetic drama may be an empirical farce as there is always a dramatic depiction of events, which portrays the poet dramatist’s impressions. Chapter Fourteen analyses the structure of negative constructions in a Bantu language—Limbum—to propose an Outer Shell NegP and an Inner Core NegP contrary to common understanding. Chapter Fifteen argues that, the motives for which Cameroonians were made to learn English in state-run pilot linguistic centres have been submerged by the new global dispensation, thereby contesting the relative value of the centres. Chapter Sixteen sees the emergence of a more Francophonised English in Cameron, which sets a new order for the definition of Cameroon English.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I: Interface Between Humanity and Contextual Realities

Chapter 1. Relinquishing Control: A Case Study of Rwandan Preservice Interns as School-Based Teacher Trainers
Eric Dwyer and Amini Ngabonziza Jean de Dieu (Florida International University, FL, USA, and others)

Chapter 2. Biology and Behaviour: The Irritable Male Syndrome in Woolf’s to the Lighthouse
Ernest Veyu (University of Yaounde, Cameroon)

Chapter 3. Context and the Role of Instruction in Learning English: Extrapolations from Three Cameroonian Contexts of Learning English as the other Language
Paul Mbangwana, Kizitus Mpoche and Eric Ekembe (Higher Teacher Training College (ENS) Yaounde, Cameroon, and others)

Chapter 4. D. H. Lawrence’s the Rainbow, Sudan and International Diplomacy
Mbuh Tenu Mbuh (University of Bamenda, Cameroon)

PART II: Crossbreeding and Byproducts

Chapter 5. Glocalism or Orientalism? Travel and Political Discourses in Nineteenth-Century American Travel Literature of the Orient: Rereading Bayard Taylor
Rosalyn Mutia (University of Yaounde, Cameroon)

Chapter 6. Literature in the Discourse of Interdisciplinarity
Kelvin Ngong Toh (University of Bamenda, Cameroon)

Chapter 7. Youth, Ageing Persons and Intergenerational Interdependence: A Study of Selected Works of Bole Butake
Donatus Fai Tangem (University of Yaoundé, Cameroon)

Chapter 8. Consumers or Producers of English Language: Cameroonian and Nigerians Varieties of English
M. Fonka Hans (University of Buea, Cameroon)

PART III: Identity, Religion, and Gender Sensitivity

Chapter 9. The Genesis and Archetypes of Woman and God
Eric Njeng (University of Burundi, East Africa)

Chapter 10. Gender Category and Valuations of Roles in Cameroon Mythology
Divine Che Neba (Higher Teacher Training College (ENS) Yaounde, Cameroon)

Chapter 11. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nexus between Language and Education in Africa
MSC Okolo (Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria)

Chapter 12. Women and Prophetic Visions in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses
Marcel Ebliylu Nyanchi (University of Yaounde, Cameroon)

PART IV: Redefining Structures and Values

Chapter 13. T. S. Eliot on Poetic Verse: Elitist Discourse, Stakes and Challenges in Postcolonial/Postmodern Poetics
David Toh Kusi (Higher Teacher Training College (ENS) Yaounde, Cameroon)

Chapter 14. Negation and the Structure of Limbum
Gratian Linyor Ndamsah (University of Yaounde, Cameroon)

Chapter 15. The Bilingual Training Program in Cameroon: A Source for Mutual Inclusion?
Kiwoh Terence Nsai (National Institute of Education, Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Cameroon)

Chapter 16. Towards the Francophonisation of English in Cameroon
Jude B. Tangwa (University of Yaounde, Cameroon)

Editor’s Contact Information

Index

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