Marie-Claire Matip

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Marie-Claire Matip , full name Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère Matip (born 1938 in Éséka , League of Nations mandate French-Cameroon ), is a Cameroonian author . Her autobiographical novella Ngonda is considered to be one of the first works by African women in French and was the first literary work by a woman to be published in Cameroon.

life and work

Marie-Claire Matip grew up in a village near Éséka . Bassa was spoken in her family . She first received home tuition , then attended the local school and, at the age of 13, moved to the Collège modern de jeunes filles in Douala . In 1958 she graduated from the Lycée Leclerc in Yaoundé . She then studied at the University of Montpellier , from there she moved to the Sorbonne , where she studied philosophy , psychology and sociology . She wrote her doctoral thesis on Quelques aspects des rôles de la femme en Afrique (Eng . Some aspects of women's roles in Africa).

Ngonda , Matip's main work, is a short novella that tells the story of a child from a village near Éséka. The book contains many biographical parts, but also mixes them with aspects of oral traditions in Africa and conveys social norms from the perspective of a child. The book was written in 1954 and 1955 for a writing competition by Air France and Elle , first published in 1958 by the then state-owned publisher Bibliothèque du jeune Africain and had a significant influence on literary development in Cameroon and beyond. It is considered the only literary work of its time that reproduces the view of a woman from rural Africa. It is also considered one of the works highlighting the benefits of adapting to European education and the European education system.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Grimm: French literary history . Springer-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-03287-4 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Sabine Rohmig: Literary Culture Transfer: Africanisms in Francophone Novels of Black Africa . Frank & Timme GmbH, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86596-459-5 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  3. ^ Nicola Frith: Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature: 'On est ensemble' . In: French Studies . tape 65 , no. 1 , January 1, 2011, ISSN  0016-1128 , p. 128–128 , doi : 10.1093 / fs / knq230 ( oup.com [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Cheryl Toman: Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory . Lexington Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4985-3721-6 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  5. ^ Marie-Claire Matip. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Cécile Dolisane Ébossé, Cheryl Toman: Getting to the Roots of Francophonie: Women Writers of Cameroon . In: Women in French Studies . tape 2002 , no. 1 , 2002, ISSN  2166-5486 , p. 296-310 , doi : 10.1353 / wfs.2002.0046 ( jhu.edu [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  7. ^ Buford Norman: The Child in French and Francophone Literature . Rodopi, 2004, ISBN 978-90-420-1159-5 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Toyin Falola Ph.D, Daniel Jean-Jacques: Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society . ABC-CLIO, 2015, ISBN 978-1-59884-666-9 ( google.de [accessed September 7, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Matip, Marie-Claire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matip, Marie-Claire-Eléonore-Débochère
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Éséka , Cameroon