Responding to Global Challenges: Voices in Language and Literature

Camilla Arundie Tabe · Joseph Sam Ngong

Oct 2023 · Spears Books

About this eBook

This book critically explores global challenges from linguistic and literary standpoints aimed at contributing towards their mitigation. Composed of two parts, contributors to the first section examine issues such as language use in the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, the Covid-19 pandemic, migration, ethnic conflict, hate speech and language shift. The second part comprises essays that foreground global problems in literary texts. Contributors survey global problems like terrorism, gender inequality, racism and neo-colonialism, which engender horror and fuel violence. Drawn from various literary texts from Cameroon, Africa, Europe and America, contributors propose language and literature responses to global issues. These include using appropriate language and concrete techniques to assist citizens and world leaders convey precise messages for better understanding and nation-building. New communication strategies could also be adopted to keep life going and improve solidarity worldwide. Finally, contributors submit that dialogue could be a panacea through stakeholder collaboration and that negotiation is a productive solution to peace and harmony.

About the author

Camilla Arundie Tabe is Associate Professor in English language and Linguistics, and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences at the University of Maroua. Her research domains are internet linguistics, the use of ICTs in language pedagogy and Sociolinguistics. She is co-editor of Language, Media and Technologies: Usages, Forms and Functions (2019) and Teaching and Learning Language and Literature at Tertiary Level: Challenges and Proposals (2018).

Ngong Joseph Sam holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Maroua. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature (FALSH) and an Associate Lecturer at the Higher Teachers’ Training College (ENS), University of Maroua. His main fields of teaching and research include American and Postcolonial Literatures, British and American Literature, African American Literature and Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism. He has published in the International Journal of Language and Literature (IJEL), the International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science and Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity: Mapping the Episteme in Language and Literature. He is also a founding member of the University of Maroua Drama and Poetry Club in English.