Author(s): Louis Ngafomo
Journal: Doct-Us
ISSN 2065-3247
Volume: 1;
Issue: 2;
Date: 2009;
Original page
Keywords: pathological | Chantal Julie Nlend | literature-medicine.
ABSTRACT
Through the pathological social reading of Chantal Julie Nlend novels Calvary of drepanocytaires through literature-medicine, this exploration offers a clinical theory. This article underlines the narrative, allegorical, and thematic functions of mental, genetic, and corporeal diseases. It stems from the comparison of the main characters and their different situations that this disease is metaphorical of a social malaise that the suffering of the characters, in particular, the childhood. The current problems of African societies are explained by the Cameroonian imagination. Through the literature-medicine, this reading offers a clinical theory of the pathological imagination.
Journal: Doct-Us
ISSN 2065-3247
Volume: 1;
Issue: 2;
Date: 2009;
Original page
Keywords: pathological | Chantal Julie Nlend | literature-medicine.
ABSTRACT
Through the pathological social reading of Chantal Julie Nlend novels Calvary of drepanocytaires through literature-medicine, this exploration offers a clinical theory. This article underlines the narrative, allegorical, and thematic functions of mental, genetic, and corporeal diseases. It stems from the comparison of the main characters and their different situations that this disease is metaphorical of a social malaise that the suffering of the characters, in particular, the childhood. The current problems of African societies are explained by the Cameroonian imagination. Through the literature-medicine, this reading offers a clinical theory of the pathological imagination.
