@article{nfah-abbenyi_2021, title={Land of My Dreams}, volume={2}, url={https://journals.ug.edu.gh/index.php/fa/article/view/1518}, number={2}, journal={Feminist Africa}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2021}, month={Dec}, pages={95–107} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2020, title={Am I Anglophone? Identity politics and postcolonial trauma in Cameroon at war}, volume={14}, ISSN={2167-4736 2167-4744}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1717120}, DOI={10.1080/21674736.2020.1717120}, abstractNote={Abstract I was born in the English-speaking South West Province of Cameroon and raised in the English-speaking North West Province where I was educated in a system of primary through high school studies modeled on the British education system of G.C.E. Ordinary and Advanced Levels. After my A’ Levels, I moved to the French-speaking Centre Province where I enrolled at the University of Yaounde. There I earned undergraduate and graduate degrees, including a Licence ès Lettres Bilingues—a B.A. in Bilingual Letters (English and French)—for which I had to complete a French language immersion requirement in Douala in the French-speaking Littoral Province. After my university studies, I worked in the French-speaking West Province and English-speaking South West Province before moving to French/English-speaking Montreal, Canada where I studied Comparative Literature at McGill University and later immigrated to the United States. This essay, written in the context of the current “Anglophone Crisis” and the war taking place in Cameroon, is a personal meditation as a citizen, scholar, and fiction writer on the elusive nature of identity that the postcolonial nation-state seeks to capture, contain, and/or impose on the multiple “fragmented” selves of its citizens; identities that are by necessity in flux and as such either refuse to be contained within state-sanctioned acts of linguistic terrorism and/or restrained by socio-cultural and political repression.}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the African Literature Association}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi}, year={2020}, month={Jan}, pages={180–197} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_doho_2020, title={Fragmented Nation or the Anglophone-Francophone Problem in Cameroon}, volume={14}, ISSN={2167-4736 2167-4744}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2020.1717782}, DOI={10.1080/21674736.2020.1717782}, abstractNote={Cameroon, like many nations born out of the ashes of colonial territories, is a fragmented nation. The colonial powers coerced ethnic groups into territories that would become fragile nations after...}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the African Literature Association}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi and Doho, Gilbert}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={171–172} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_doho_2020, title={Special issue on Fragmented Nation or the Anglophone-Francophone Problem in Cameroon}, volume={14}, number={2}, journal={JALA: Journal of the African Literature Association}, year={2020} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2020, title={When real frogs fall from the skies}, booktitle={Bearing Witness: Poems from a Land in Turmoil}, publisher={Spears Books}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Ashuntantang, Joyce and Tande, DibussiEditors}, year={2020}, pages={36–38} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2019, title={Femme nue, femme noire (2003; Calixthe Beyala}, booktitle={Global Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bi sexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBT) History}, publisher={Charles Scribner’s Sons}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Chiang, HowardEditor}, year={2019}, pages={968–969} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2019, title={Home is Where You Mend the Roof}, booktitle={New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent}, publisher={Amistad}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Busby, MargaretEditor}, year={2019}, pages={223–228} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2019, title={Introduction}, volume={13}, ISSN={2167-4736 2167-4744}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2019.1606509}, DOI={10.1080/21674736.2019.1606509}, abstractNote={Since its birth in Chicago in 1974 and its inaugural conference at the University of Texas at Austin in 1975, the African Literature Association has relied on bids from its members to host ALA annual meetings on their college campuses. The 44th annual meeting of the ALA on the Environments of African Literature, held in Washington, DC at the Marriott Wardman Park from May 23 to 26, was a historic milestone in the life of the association. For the first time, the ALA did not have to rely on its membership to host a meeting. After years of planning, 2018 was the turning point when the ALA finally took charge of organizing its annual meetings. We live in the Anthropocene—the age of humans—an epoch when humans have fundamentally altered earth system processes and are continually reshaping our planet. It is therefore fitting that in calling attention to the Environments of African Literature, the 2018 conference invited participants in its call for papers to address the multiple environments—physical, institutional, ideological, symbolic, discursive, cultural, and technological (among others)—that affect the production, the dissemination, and the reception of African literature. Further, the ALA solicited papers which addressed ways in which African literary texts reflect on such environments and the challenges and promises they present. It is also worth noting that ALA members around the world belong to professional associations dedicated to the study of literature, visual arts, and culture. In keeping with this long tradition at the ALA where our understanding of the literary is capacious, papers on music, dance, performance, theater, film, art, and other media were equally welcome. One such long standing tradition is aptly captured in Cilas Kemedjio’s Presidential address, “In Praise of My Mentors and Mentees” (printed in this volume). Cilas’s address is a heartwarming account of a 27-year relationship with ALA members who have been both his mentors and his mentees. This relationship that began while he was a graduate student and has lasted through his becoming the current president of the ALA speaks to a mentoring tradition that is generational, enduring, and one that can only strengthen the ever-growing community of students and scholars of the ALA. The articles selected for publication in this special issue begin with Astrid StarckAdler’s essay on the environmental art of South African sculptor Andries Botha whose life size elephant sculptures (and bronzes of historical figures), all made from}, number={1}, journal={Journal of the African Literature Association}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi}, year={2019}, month={Jan}, pages={1–4} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_2019, title={Special issue on The Environments of African Literature}, volume={13}, number={1}, journal={JALA: Journal of the African Literature Association}, year={2019} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2017, place={Kalmthout}, title={Penis, Testicles, and Vagina = Penis, Testikels en Vagina}, booktitle={Wreed schoon: volkssprookjes op reis}, publisher={Polis}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2017}, pages={325–327} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2017, place={Kalmthout}, title={The Girl Who Refused Suitors = Het meisje dat alle jongens afwees}, booktitle={Wreed schoon: volkssprookjes op reis}, publisher={Polis}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2017}, pages={113–118} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2017, title={Unlocking our silences: the ALA Oral History Project}, volume={11}, ISSN={2167-4736 2167-4744}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2018.1428279}, DOI={10.1080/21674736.2018.1428279}, number={3}, journal={Journal of the African Literature Association}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi}, year={2017}, month={Sep}, pages={263–268} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_butake_2016, title={Anglophone Cameroon literature: A conversation with Bole Butake}, volume={53}, ISSN={0041-476X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.2}, DOI={10.4314/tvl.v53i1.2}, abstractNote={Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi: Professor Butake, we are here for a conversation about the evolution of Anglophone Cameroon literature with the aim of providing a framework for understanding the issues addressed by the contributors to this special country issue of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde on Cameroon literature. Thank you so much for talking with me.
Bole Butake: It is my privilege.
You are meeting with me under difficult circumstances and I want you to know how much I appreciate this.}, number={1}, journal={Tydskrif vir letterkunde}, publisher={Academy of Science of South Africa}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi and Butake, Bole}, year={2016}, month={Apr}, pages={12} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2016, title={Cameroon’s national literatures: An introduction}, volume={53}, ISSN={0041-476X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.1}, DOI={10.4314/tvl.v53i1.1}, abstractNote={In the Afterword of my book The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba (2008), I wrote the following: “My earliest impressions of Cameroon were gleaned from the stories told by older people. Their comments revolved around two things: first, that Mount Cameroon—also known as Mount Fako, the Throne of Thunder, and the Chariot of the Gods—the highest peak in West and Central Africa, is the site of the earliest recorded volcanic eruption in the region; and second, that the country they call home was named after prawns by some white people. It is said that in the fifth century BCE, while sailing along the Atlantic coast of West Africa, Hanno, the Carthaginian explorer and ship’s captain, observed Mount Cameroon erupting and inscribed in his travel writings the name Theon Ochema, Chariot of the Gods. He is said to have noted that the fires from the mountain were so hot and so bright that the flames reached up and touched the stars. Firm believers in this historical version point out that Mount Cameroon (also called Mount Fako because it is situated in Fako Division of the South West Province) is the only active volcano on the coast of West Africa, erupting seven times in the twentieth century alone. They also point to the fact that the mountain is known locally as monga-ma loba—Seat of the Gods. I was born in the South West Province but was raised through my teenage years in the grasslands of the North West, where Beba, my village of origin, is situated. Mount Cameroon has therefore held a kind of mystery for me. As a young girl, I was fascinated with these stories of the so-called discovery by Hanno, of flaming arrows reaching for the stars, and with the fact that Debundscha, the wettest place on the African continent and the place with the second-highest rainfall in the world, lies at the foot of the Seat/Chariot of the Gods. I found it amusing that my country was named after big juicy shrimp, and by a bunch of white men we did not know. I could not grasp what that act of naming really entailed, but the teachers who taught me in primary school and the adults who told us stories by the evening fire were not amused. They insisted that branding  us with the name of shrimp was an invitation to a feast. The metaphor was lost on my young sensibilities. As I got older and attended primary and secondary school, our curriculum was tailored to the British education system of O Levels and A Levels. In our history lessons, little was afforded the various peoples who migrated to and now inhabit the sahel and plateau regions of the mostly Muslin north, or the grasslands, littoral, and forest regions of the mostly Christian south. History lessons were dominated by European and Cameroon’s colonial history. Only later, at the University of Yaounde, did I, on my own, read all the books I could that addressed the various kingdoms, chiefdoms, and indigenous civilizations of the people who today call Cameroon home.}, number={1}, journal={Tydskrif vir letterkunde}, publisher={Academy of Science of South Africa}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi}, year={2016}, month={Apr}, pages={5} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_kom_2016, title={Francophone Cameroon literature: A conversation with Ambroise Kom}, volume={53}, ISSN={0041-476X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.3}, DOI={10.4314/tvl.v53i1.3}, abstractNote={Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi: Professor Ambroise Kom, we are here for a conversation about the evolution of Francophone Cameroon literature with the aim of providing a framework for understanding the issues addressed by the contributors to this special country issue of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. Thank you so much for talking with me.
Ambroise Kom: It is my pleasure, Juliana, to be with you here today. I can share with you what I have learned along the way: my experience as researcher, as a professor of African literature and especially as someone very interested in education as a whole, and literary education, to say the least. So, thank you for coming from so far away and to visit us here in Bagangte at Universite des Montagnes.}, number={1}, journal={Tydskrif vir letterkunde}, publisher={Academy of Science of South Africa}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi and Kom, Ambroise}, year={2016}, month={Apr}, pages={30} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_2016, title={Special country issue on Cameroon literature}, volume={53}, number={1}, journal={Tydskrif vir Letterkunde}, year={2016} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2016, edition={Reprint}, title={The Sacred Door}, volume={2}, booktitle={A River of Stories: Tales and Poems from Across the Commonwealth}, publisher={Commonwealth Education Trust}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Curry, AliceEditor}, year={2016}, pages={89–91} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2013, place={Geneva, NY}, title={Achebe Tribute}, ISBN={9780615866109}, booktitle={Chinua Achebe (1930-2013): A Tribute}, publisher={African Literature Association Books}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Kalu, A.C. and Emenyonu, E.N. and Lewis, S.K.Editors}, year={2013}, pages={40} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2013, place={Boulder, Colo.}, title={American Dream}, ISBN={9781588268686 1588268683}, booktitle={Reflections : an anthology of new work by African women poets}, publisher={Lynne Rienner Publishers}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Kalu, Anthonia C and Nfah-Abbenyi;, Juliana Makuchi and Ajayi-Soyinka, OmofolaboEditors}, year={2013}, pages={108–109} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2013, place={Hillsborough, NC}, title={Home is where you mend the roof}, booktitle={27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry}, publisher={Eno Publishers}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2013}, pages={64–75} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2013, place={Boulder, Colo}, title={Invisible}, booktitle={Reflections: An Anthology of New Work by African Women Poets}, publisher={Lynne Rienner Publishers}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Kalu, Anthonia and Ajayi-Soyinka, OmofolaboEditors}, year={2013}, pages={105–107} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_2013, place={Boulder, Colo}, title={Reflections: An Anthology of New Work by African Women Poets}, publisher={Lynne Rienner Publishers}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Kalu, Anthonia and Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi and Ajayi-Soyinka, OmofolaboEditors}, year={2013} }
 @article{cohen_cancel_kruger_eisenberg_darlington_yusin_handlarski_carrington_klein_kroll_et al._2013, title={Reviews}, volume={8}, ISSN={2167-4736 2167-4744}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2013.11690222}, DOI={10.1080/21674736.2013.11690222}, number={1}, journal={Journal of the African Literature Association}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Cohen, Hella Bloom and Cancel, Robert and Kruger, Marie and Eisenberg, Eve and Darlington, Sonja and Yusin, Jennifer and Handlarski, Denise and Carrington, André and Klein, Deborah L and Kroll, Catherine and et al.}, year={2013}, month={Jan}, pages={104–173} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2012, title={Introduction: Orality and Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Globalization}, volume={5}, ISSN={1932-8648}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.5.2.1}, DOI={10.2979/globalsouth.5.2.1}, abstractNote={The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization held a three week Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paris from September 29 to October 17, 2003. According to a report published on UNESCO’s website, the purpose of the convention was “(a) to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage; (b) to ensure respect for the intangible cultural heritage of the communities, groups and individuals concerned; (c) to raise awareness at the local, national and international levels of the importance of the intangible cultural heritage, and of ensuring mutual appreciation thereof; (d) to provide for international cooperation and assistance.”1 Furthermore, the report defines “intangible cultural heritage” (ICH) as:}, number={2}, journal={The Global South}, publisher={Indiana University Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2012}, pages={1–6} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_2012, title={Special supplement on Anglophone Cameroonian Poetry}, volume={22}, journal={Free Verse}, year={2012} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_2011, title={Special issue on Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Globalization}, volume={5}, number={2}, journal={The Global South}, year={2011} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2010, title={Plantain Leaf Baby}, volume={1}, number={2}, journal={Mythium: The Journal of Contemporary Literature and Cultural Voices}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2010}, pages={132–143} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2010, place={Madison, WI}, title={Slow Poison}, booktitle={African Women Writing Resistance: An anthology of Contemporary Voices}, publisher={University of Wisconsin Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer and Dongala, Pauline and Jolaosho, Omotayo and Serafin, AnneEditors}, year={2010}, pages={198–209} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_2010, title={Special double issue on Création littéraire et archives de la mémoire/Literary Creation and the Archives of Memory}, volume={80}, number={1-2}, journal={Journal des Africanistes 80.1-2}, year={2010} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2010, series={Francopolyphonies}, title={Un-Masking the Mediator: Werewere Liking’s Flashes of Light}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042029729_007}, DOI={10.1163/9789042029729_007}, booktitle={"The Original Explosion That Created Worlds"}, publisher={BRILL}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J. M.}, editor={Conteh-Morgan, J. and Assiba d'Almeida, I.Editors}, year={2010}, month={Jan}, pages={63–88}, collection={Francopolyphonies} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2009, title={Woman of the Lake}, volume={10-11}, number={2-1}, journal={Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2009}, pages={64–77} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2008, title={Africa after Gender?}, volume={39}, ISSN={["0034-5210"]}, DOI={10.2979/ral.2008.39.4.147}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Africa after Gender? Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi Africa after Gender? Ed. Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007. vi + 328 pp. ISBN 10-0-253-21877-2 paper. Gender has gained currency beyond academia in twenty-first-century Africa. Gender is mentioned on the streets; it is co-opted by governments, deployed by policymakers, NGOs, and foreign assistance programs, albeit with unique agendas. This trend belies heated scholarly debates that have dominated African women’s and gender studies in the last two decades. Central to these disputes are identity politics grounded in the location of scholars (and their scholarship) based in Africa, Europe, or North America in strained relations between (Northern) white feminists and African activists, between Africans, African Americans, and diaspora Africans whose research is gender in Africa; in tensions over overt or covert race-based and sex-based exclusions; in squabbles over rhetoric vs. action; in debates over different currents of feminism. The 1992 Women in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference held in Nigeria exposed many controversial power-related tussles between scholars, bureaucrats, policymakers, and activists. How, in the face of such tensions, does one nurture coalitions in spite of, or rather, because of one’s location around women’s and gender issues in Africa? These earlier debates paved the way the intervention of Africa after Gender? in what the editors describe as “one of the most dynamic areas of Africanist research today.” The provocative title is deliberately chosen to underline methodologies and/or processes that scholars must engage to move beyond deep-rooted polarizing identity politics; to foster “transcontinental, multigendered, multiracial collaboration” and to encourage both multidisciplinary and “transdisciplinary” approaches to the study of gender in Africa. The eighteen essays in the volume are written from a “variety of locations, races, genders, and ethnicities” by six historians, six literary critics, two legal scholars, a sociologist, and anthropologist, a women’s studies scholar, and an independent scholar. Organized around four themes— “volatile genders and new African women,” “activism and public space,” “gender enactments, gendered perceptions,” “masculinity, misogyny, and seniority”—the essays examine such issues as the public discourse around homosexual rights; gender coalitions across race and class; transnational pressures NGOs and foreign assistance agencies exert on the dynamics of gender activism; women’s labor in West African documentary films; competing forms of masculinity and issues of [End Page 147] misogyny; theorizing gender (past, present, post-?) and women’s lived experiences, to name a few. Although Africa after Gender? suffers from limited country representation— gender issues in Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa are covered while North Africa is not represented by a single essay—this book is an important contribution to the location of knowledge production and the study of gender in Africa. The multi- and transdisciplinary essays emphasize in various pragmatic ways how local custodians immeasurably enrich collaborative scholarly research. Other essays offer fresh approaches to gender and gender performance while situating such enactments within a transcontinental global framework with the clear aim of promoting less antagonistic North-South dialogue and groundbreaking studies of women’s and gender issues in Africa. The editors close with useful resources for further reading. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi North Carolina State University Copyright © 2008 Indiana University Press}, number={4}, journal={RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi}, year={2008}, pages={147–148} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_2008, place={Athens, OH}, title={The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba}, ISBN={9780896802568 0896802566}, publisher={Ohio University Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2008} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_neville dawes_2007, title={"Creating a Change in Continuity": A Conversation with Makuchi, Author of The Sacred Door and Other Stories Cameroon Folktales of the Beba}, volume={8}, number={2}, journal={Obsidian: Literature of the African Diaspora}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M. and Neville Dawes, Kwame Senu}, year={2007}, pages={53–66} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2007, edition={Reprint}, title={Ecological Postcolonialism in African Women’s Literature}, booktitle={African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory}, publisher={Blackwell}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Olaniyan, Tejumola and Quayson, AtoEditors}, year={2007}, pages={707–714} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2007, place={Denver, Colo}, title={Market Scene}, booktitle={The Rienner Anthology of African Literature}, publisher={Lynne Rienner}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Kalu, Anthonia C.Editor}, year={2007}, pages={564–572} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2007, title={The Forest Will Claim You Too}, volume={1}, journal={Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2007}, pages={63–80} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2007, place={Malden, MA}, title={Toward a Lesbian Continuum? Or Reclaiming the Erotic}, booktitle={African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory}, publisher={Blackwell}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Olaniyan, Tejumola and Quayson, AtoEditors}, year={2007}, pages={746–752} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2007, title={terrorism}, volume={8}, number={2}, journal={Obsidian: Literature of the African Diaspora}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2007}, pages={23–25} }
 @misc{nfah-abbenyi_2005, title={Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (Women’s) Writing}, ISBN={9781403962836 9781137090096}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_14}, DOI={10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_14}, abstractNote={The concept of gender has influenced, defined, and oriented much of feminist discourse in the past three decades. Donna Haraway has stated that all the modern feminist meanings of gender have roots in Simone de Beauvoir’s insight that one is not born a woman. Gender, explains Haraway, is a concept that developed to “contest the naturalization of sexual difference in multiple arenas of struggle. Feminist theory and practice around gender seek to explain and change historical systems of sexual difference, whereby ‘men’ and ‘women’ are socially constituted and positioned in relations of hierarchy and antagonism.”1 According to Elaine Showalter, gender has been used within Anglo-Saxon discourse to stand for the social, cultural, and psychological meaning imposed upon biological sexual identity. She further states that while earlier feminist literary criticism was interested primarily in women and women’s writing, “[t]he introduction of gender into the field of literary studies marks a new phase in feminist criticism, an investigation of the ways that all reading and writing, by men as well as women, is marked by gender.”2 Feminist scholars were now able to theorize gender beyond the limits of sexual difference. This shift was necessary and significant because sexual difference had been central to the critique of representation in feminist writings and cultural practices of the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, Sandra Harding has referred to feminist inquiries into the sex/gender system as “a revolution in epistemology.”3 Feminist theorists in recent decades have thus generally drawn from the diversity inherent in feminism(s).}, journal={African Gender Studies A Reader}, publisher={Palgrave Macmillan US}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi}, year={2005}, pages={259–278} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2005, edition={Reprint}, title={Slow Poison}, volume={21}, journal={Asian Women}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2005}, pages={83–99} }
 @misc{nfah-abbenyi_2003, title={Less than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing by Kenneth Harrow}, volume={5}, number={3}, journal={Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2003}, pages={465–467} }
 @misc{nfah-abbenyi_2003, title={The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865 by Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.}, volume={41}, number={2}, journal={The Southern Quarterly}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2003}, pages={144–148} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2002, title={Ah Deh Whiteman Contri}, volume={15}, number={1}, journal={Worldview}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2002}, pages={51–58} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2002, place={New York}, edition={Reprint}, title={Slow Poison}, booktitle={The Anchor Book of Modern African Stories}, publisher={Anchor Books}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Obradovic, NadezdaEditor}, year={2002}, pages={322–336} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_2002, title={Tribute: “Possessed by the Sanza, Francis Bebey extolled Africa’s Dignity and Humanism"}, volume={28}, number={1}, journal={ALA Bulletin}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={2002}, pages={45–47} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2001, place={Sydney, Australia}, title={Na Wet Dat? Interrogating the Traffic in Post-Colonialism(s)}, booktitle={Compr(om)ising Post- Colonialism(s): Challenging Narratives & Practices}, publisher={Dangaroo Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Radcliffe, Greg and Turcotte, GerryEditors}, year={2001}, pages={64–73} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2001, place={Trenton, NJ}, title={Women’s Sexuality and the Use of the Erotic in Calixthe Beyala}, booktitle={Atlantic Cross-Currents/Transatlantiques}, publisher={Africa World Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Andrade, Susan and Rice-Maximim, Micheline and Songolo, AlikoEditors}, year={2001}, pages={101–115} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2000, place={London}, title={Calixthe Beyala}, booktitle={Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Miller, Jane EldridgeEditor}, year={2000}, pages={77} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2000, place={London}, title={Tsitsi Dangarembga}, booktitle={Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Miller, Jane EldridgeEditor}, year={2000}, pages={189} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_2000, place={London}, title={Werewere Liking}, booktitle={Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Miller, Jane EldridgeEditor}, year={2000}, pages={36} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1999, title={Ah Deh Whiteman Contri}, volume={6}, number={2}, journal={Thamyris}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1999}, pages={231–240} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_1999, place={Toronto}, title={Bridging North and South . . . Notes Towards True Dialogue and Transformation}, booktitle={Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader}, publisher={Inanna Publications and Education Inc}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Amin, NuzhatEditor}, year={1999}, pages={18–24} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1999, title={Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur}, volume={26}, number={1}, journal={College Literature}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1999}, pages={214–215} }
 @misc{nfah-abbenyi_1999, title={Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies by Sandra Harding}, volume={1}, number={4}, journal={Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1999}, pages={629–31} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1999, edition={Reprint}, title={Women in Action}, journal={ISIS International Manila}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1999} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_1999, place={Athens, OH}, title={Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon}, publisher={Ohio University Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1999} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_1998, place={Westport, CT}, title={Calixthe Beyala: 1961-}, booktitle={Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook}, publisher={Greenwood Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Parekh, PushpaEditor}, year={1998}, pages={75–83} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_1998, place={Chicago}, title={Ecological Postcolonialism in African Women’s Literature}, booktitle={The Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook}, publisher={Fitzroy Dearborn Publishing}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Murphy, PatrickEditor}, year={1998}, pages={344–349} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_1998, place={Trenton, NJ}, title={Flabberwhelmed or Turning History on its Head? The Postcolonial Woman-as-subject in Changes}, booktitle={Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo}, publisher={Africa World Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Azodo, Ada U. and Wilentz, GayEditors}, year={1998}, pages={281–302} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1997, title={Bridging North and South . . . Notes Towards True Dialogue and Transformation}, volume={17}, number={2}, journal={Canadian Woman Studies}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1997}, pages={145–148} }
 @book{nfah-abbenyi_1997, place={Bloomington, IN}, title={Gender in African Women’s Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference}, publisher={Indiana University Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1997} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1997, title={Market Scene}, volume={15}, number={3}, journal={The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1997}, pages={45–53} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1997, title={Your Madness, Not Mine}, volume={2}, number={2}, journal={Crab Orchard Review}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1997}, pages={186–194} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_1996, place={London}, title={Calixthe Beyala's 'femme-fillette': Womanhood and the Politics of (M)Othering}, booktitle={The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Nnaemeka, ObiomaEditor}, year={1996}, pages={101–113} }
 @article{makuchi_1996, title={The Healer}, volume={19}, ISSN={1080-6512}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.1996.0127}, DOI={10.1353/cal.1996.0127}, abstractNote={The Healer Makuchi (bio) When my uncle and I arrived at the compound, we were stunned by the chaos that stared us in the face. The entire compound looked ravaged as if a troop of elephants had just passed through for breakfast. My uncle later said that what we saw had reminded him of the year when, as a young boy, the locusts had invaded our village. Had the people not been protected by their ancestors following the coming of these “leeches-with-wings” (my uncle has a way with words), who had pleaded on their behalf to appease the village gods, they would all have died of starvation. The locusts had picked their crops bare of all their leaves. The devastation could be seen throughout the vast expanse of hills and valleys. But the gods had been kind to them, for in their timely benevolence, they had unleashed the rainfall that had helped revive some of the plants. That was how they had been able to survive the-year-of-the-leeches-with-wings. The compound we had just walked into, that was once bustling with life, looked desolate, and there was pandemonium everywhere. The houses, the huts, everything: the whole compound had been burnt to ashes. Trickles of smoke could be seen rising from some of the mounds of earth. Men, women, children were scurrying around the area like incubating hens that hurriedly search for food before rushing back to nestle their eggs. Voices could be heard everywhere. The forest around was very much alive. The noise sounded like the din you normally hear only in our open air village markets (as opposed to city markets where city-folk are much too civilised to scream at the top of their heads for long hours). We could hear relatives calling out to their loved ones, pushing through the crowds, hoping to find them before they bolted off into the forest, like some already had. I was appalled by the look on the faces of the “mental cases.” Some of them were sitting on the ground, apparently not aware of what was happening. Some were picking up the earth and rubbing it on their bodies, decorating themselves, making patterns as if they were building huts. Some were scavenging for food in the debris. I did not have the time to think or observe all that was going on. My uncle and I were pushing through throngs of people, shouting my aunt’s name at the top of our voices. I spotted her, leaning against a tree, a young sapling that could barely hold her weight. I shouted her name and broke into a run, my uncle close behind me. I embraced her but she did not respond to my touch. She did not gather me in her arms as she was wont to do. My hands dropped to my sides as I looked up into her face. I could not believe that this woman staring at me as if I were an imperceptible evening shadow was my beloved aunt. I might as well have been staring at a total stranger (or [End Page 771] rather, she must have taken me for a total stranger). I kept on scrutinising her face, inspecting the lines for those signs that only I knew. Not a single twitch of a muscle. I felt as if my eyes were drilling holes through her body, through her head, no, through her eyes. There were no shadows. I was hoping to recognise those shadows that only I saw. But there was nothing. It was empty, totally empty, nothing. All I remember now are the tears, hot little streams rolling down my cheeks as my uncle gently took my aunt in his arms and led the way back home. It would take her six months to tell me (in confidence) what had happened that day. Till today, I still think that what she told me barely scratched the surface of the whole story, a story that no one will ever know in its entirety, for only one person knew and could tell the stories, but he is in no condition or position to do so. Even if he...}, number={3}, journal={Callaloo}, publisher={Project Muse}, author={Makuchi}, year={1996}, pages={771–776} }
 @inbook{nfah-abbenyi_1995, place={Montreal & Kingston}, title={Why (what) am I (doing) here: A Cameroonian Woman?}, booktitle={Our Own Agendas: Autobiographical Essays by Women Associated with McGill University}, publisher={McGill-Queen's University Press}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, editor={Gillett, Margaret and Beer, AnnEditors}, year={1995}, pages={250–261} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1994, title={Le petit prince de Belleville and Maman a un amant by Calixthe Beyala}, number={118}, journal={Notre Librairie}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1994}, pages={183} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1994, title={Reflections of an African woman}, volume={14}, number={2}, journal={Canadian Woman Studies}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1994}, pages={25–28} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1993, title={Women and Gender in Beba Folktales}, journal={Simone de Beauvoir Institute Bulletin}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1993}, pages={91–103} }
 @article{nfah-abbenyi_1992, title={Linda Alcoff and 'Positionality': Rethinking the Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory}, volume={23}, number={2}, journal={Comparative Literature in Canada/ Littérature Comparée au Canada}, author={Nfah-Abbenyi, J.M.}, year={1992}, pages={93–100} }