Lire la suite graves auxquelles Mongo Béti s'affronte dans ce roman où la puissance de la vision et la création de figures romanesques inoubliables (tel le R.P. To go to the town and get a small-boy's job with one of the Greek merchants...Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride price for the woman he has chosen to wed. Due to a series of misfortunes, Banda loses both his crop and his bride to be. Gradually it becomes apparent that the local churchmen have been using the girls for their own purposes.A good book with some serious flaws. Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. When Mongo Beti’s Le pauvre Christ de Bomba was published in 1956, some critics modern-day Voltaire who had an axe to grind, in particular against Christianity, and who viewed religion as superstition. Ne renvoie-t-elle pas à un mouvement de quelques Africains "fanatiques" et "intégristes" qui défendent leurs droits mais qui acceptent quand même de s'ouvrir aux Européens ? Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba est un roman de l'écrivain camerounais Mongo Beti, paru en 1956.

: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Important events: Related movies: Awards and honors : Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century (creative writing) Epigraph: Dedication: First words: Surely it isn't any blasphemy...oh, no! À travers les mésaventures du Révérend Père Supérieur Drumont, missionnaire au Cameroun, Mongo Beti évoque l'incompréhension et l'ambiguïté des relations entre christianisateurs et populations africaines. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising.

Beti’s work stands in clear distinction to Laye’s L’Enfant noir , a novel that idyllically portrays Africa and was favorably received by Parisian publishers. Some, but not aall of this may be due to the translation. Le pauvre Christ de Bomba, ou la passion sans rédemption d'un témoin d'un dieu qui n'était pas noir. Ce sont les livres pour ceux qui cherchent à lire le 370 Pages - Coiffes légèrement abîmées Etat d'usage Couv. It's a satire and a condemnation of colonialism and the associated human rights abuses. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Drumont) sont à la mesure de l'exigence réaliste et de la verve critique.Le pauvre Christ de Bomba, ou la passion sans … La présence du Christ en Afrique noire, l'ambiguïté de l'action missionnaire, le problème de l'universalité du message chrétien, ce sont là les questions graves auxquelles Mongo Béti s'affronte dans ce roman où la puissance de la vision et la création de figures romanesques inoubliables (tel le R.P. Making his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa, and as he progresses, the novel mirrors these changes in its style and language. Is he kind and charitable, or does he harangue the Christians for church dues and beat women to get them to speak? Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Le pauvre Christ de Bomba. convenable Intérieur frais In-8 Carré BrochéLa résistance africaine face à la colonisation fait penser à une vaste opération.

Other articles where The Poor Christ of Bomba is discussed: Mongo Beti: …Pauvre Christ de Bomba (1956; The Poor Christ of Bomba), satirizes the destructive influence of French Catholic missionary activities in Cameroon. Mission to Kala was almost universally praised. Elle change de camp et sans doute de signification. Alternative titles: Original publication date: 1956.
Quotations: Last words (Click to show. Translation of: Le pauvre Christ de Bomba. It forms part of an informal tetralogy—the group of four novels that Beti produced from the mid-to late 1950s: Ville cruelle (Cruel City), Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba), Mission terminée (Mission to Kala), and Le roi miraculé (King Lazarus). Despite this it's fast-paced and always interesting.

Il contient 348 pages et disponible sur format. Produced by Johns Hopkins University Press in collaboration with The Sheridan Libraries.Now and Always, The Trusted Content Your Research Requires©2020 Project MUSE. Unfortunately the narrative never conveys a clear picture of what Father Drumont is like: is he the type of priest we would be lucky to have more of, as the opening suggests, or is he a priest who is dangerously ignorant to things occurring right under his nose, as the ending revealed? Ce questionnement donne l'occasion d'explorer d'autres voies. Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization of his country. "We loved him so little...As if he were not one of us..for he was not one of us..."The narrator being a largely passive character in this book, the main character in practice is Father Drumont.