La nga-là wanted the plantain un genre un genre! Hybridity and Identity Revolution in Camfranglais.DE
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
28.04.2026
Verlag
Our Knowledge PublishingSeitenzahl
84
Maße (L/B/H)
22/15/0.6 cm
Gewicht
143 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-620-9-96338-4
In the hustle and bustle of Douala cabs, on Yaoundé racetracks or on the social networks of "Africa in miniature", a language bubbles, explodes and reinvents itself every day: Camfranglais. But why do the speakers of this atypical language choose to "say without saying"? Why does sexuality hide behind a diet of plantain or a portion of peanut chicken? What is the real meaning of these re-semantized metaphors that saturate everyday life to the point of paroxysm? This book is not simply a dictionary of slang. It's an unprecedented dive into the DNA of contemporary Cameroon, more than ever recognized as a "continental" country. By analyzing the poetics of intimacy, the author shows how this language, long banned from schools and scorned as a departure from "standard" French, has become the armor of a youth in search of emancipation. Between Bantu heritage and urban modernity, discover how the hybridization of the verb has succeeded where politics have failed: to create a national cement capable of uniting over 300 ethnic groups under a single identity banner.
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