The Lock on My Lips - Lola, Pepertua K. Nkamanyang
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The Lock on My Lips foregrounds gender, narrative and identity in its representations. It tells the story of a woman who defies traditional patriarchal boundaries that deny women their rights, most especially the right to landed property and buys land in her name. Discursive constructions, 'travelling concepts', metaphors, multiple perspectives, narrative, imagery, folklore, anthropological objects, and mixed-genre plot structure (narrative-(poetic)-drama), combine to tell the story of gendered beings and thus pave the way for exploring the interdisciplinary potentials of the play-text. Land…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Lock on My Lips foregrounds gender, narrative and identity in its representations. It tells the story of a woman who defies traditional patriarchal boundaries that deny women their rights, most especially the right to landed property and buys land in her name. Discursive constructions, 'travelling concepts', metaphors, multiple perspectives, narrative, imagery, folklore, anthropological objects, and mixed-genre plot structure (narrative-(poetic)-drama), combine to tell the story of gendered beings and thus pave the way for exploring the interdisciplinary potentials of the play-text. Land and genre are gender markers. Land is definable through power and authority, constitutes the material with which masculinities are constructed, and thus becomes a space where women are excluded. The play equates land with patriarchal ideology of male virility and supremacy, but creates a mixed-genre fragmentary structure to disrupt the very patriarchal power erected through the metaphor of land.
Autorenporträt
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.