Letter to Tita (Volume 2)

Jeanne Marie Rosette Abou'Ou

Description

In this second volume, the author exposes the devastations of modernity that Africa faces.

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Sujets

• Romans
• Littérature
• Nouvelles
• Harmattan Littérature

Informations

• Publié par: L'Harmattan
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• EAN13: 9782296531529
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Jeanne Marie Rosette Abou’ou

Letter to Tita

Volume 2

Prefaces by Jacques Fame Ndongo and Jacques Philippe Tsala Tsala

Lettres camerounaises

Letter to Tita

Lettres camerounaises Collection dirigée par Gérard-Marie Messina La collectionLettres camerounaises présente l’avantage du positionnement international d’une parole autochtone camerounaise miraculeusement entendue de tous, par le moyen d’un dialogue dynamique entre la culture regardante – celle du Nord – et la culture regardée – celle du Sud, qui devient de plus en plus regardante. Pour une meilleure perception et une gestion plus efficace des richesses culturelles du terroir véhiculées dans un rendu littéraire propre, la collectionLettres camerounaises s’intéresse particulièrement à tout ce qui relève des œuvres de l’esprit en matière de littérature. Il s’agit de la fiction littéraire dans ses multiples formes : poésie, roman, théâtre, nouvelles, etc. Parce que la littérature se veut le reflet de l’identité des peuples, elle alimente la conception de la vision stratégique. Déjà parus Jeanne Marie Rosette ABOU’OU,Letter to Tita, vol.1, 2013. Eugène Abel NTOH,Tempête sur le cocotier, 2013. Grégoire NGUEDI,Coup de foudre à Bouraka, 2013. Careen PILO,Quand l’espoir se réveille…,2013. Josué Delamour FOUMANE FOUMANE,La récompense d’un arriviste, 2013. Benoît NDI,La Rose de Jérusalem, 2013. Martial ATEBA NOMO,L’adopté, 2013. Larmahi ZAMEDJO,Les hommes rompent le silence, 2012. Camille NKOA ATENGA,Jalousie de femmes et complicités coupables, 2012. Raviel KARMADY,Chasse-mouches, 2012. Moïse FEUNKAM TALLA,Lettres à une génération sacrifiée, 2012. Joseph Franck BONNY,Nébuleuse de larmes, 2012. Émile ESSONO TSIMI,Le métier d’aimer, 2012.

Jeanne Marie Rosette Abou’ou Letter to Tita

Volume 2

Translated from French by Maurice Ngompe

Prefaces by Jacques Fame Ndongo and Jacques Philippe Tsala Tsala

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Preface of Jacques FAME NDONGO

In the preface ofcontes d'Amadou Nouveaux  KOUMBA by Birago Diop, Léopold Sedar Senghor writes :« Everything lives, everything posseses a soul. »The enticing letter to Tita by Jeanne Marie Rosette Abou'ou illustrates that animism, an essential characteristic of African literature. In the first volume, Edima reveals : « Our beloved Tita was the guarantor of tradition... He was regularly found talking to a tree, to water, to stars, to the sun or to an animal. »

In this recreation of the world using the imaginary of writing, realism and naturalism combine with autobiography. In the second volume that you are going to read, the general picture that is drawn under the pen of this young novelist is that of a forest with huts, rivers, a countryside path and agricultural activities. By pushing the evocation further, a wild splendour whose sight is the source of amazement and wonder emerges from the slopes of a mountain. A morning breeze crosses the reader by making him breathe in a virginal flower. Melancholic and soft rains make a deep and delicious smell of wet land rise. People sleep under the caress of tree leaves whose shadow dives into the bottom of the dormant water of a river that rocks you.

Not far from that mirror that flows, a spring gets colder at the touch of rocks, twigs and roots. But before continuing to accompany and restitute the springing of this poetic sensitivity, what is the subject inLetter to Tita ?Here is the story.

Edima, son of Monetita and grandson of Tita has had enough. He resorts to writing to release himself, a kind of epistolary therapy. People who have died, especially Tita, should know that everything has changed in the village, that traditional values, symbols of nobility of the equatorial forest

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