Jeanne-Louise Djanga

Jeann-Djanga is a Cameroonian poet, novelist and choreographer. Quotes If just for one week in the South would show them some simple, impartial courtesy. I wonder what would happen. Do you think it'd give 'em airs or the beginnings of self-respect? Have you ever been snubbed, Atticus? Do you know how it feels? No, don't tell me they're children and don't feel it: I was a child and felt it, so grown children must feel, too. A real good snub, Atticus, makes you feel like you're too nasty to associate with people. How they're as good as they are now is a mystery to me, after a hundred years of systematic denial that they are human. I wonder what kind of miracle we could work with a week's decency. You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings – I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers. Je mesure le chemin parcouru…Il y a indéniablement un fil conducteur qui relie ces deux ouvrages comme si l’histoire et la mémoire de mes pensées étaient des signes que je ne dois pas en rester là…Entre les deux, il y a eu des témoignages, des romans mais toute ma réflexion reste fidèle à ma personnalité, à la femme que j’étais et celle que je suis devenue. Un auteur met toujours un peu de lui dans la narration même s’il veut nuancer ses propos. Pour qu’une écriture soit vraie et traverse les époques, pour quelle soit intemporelle, elle doit interpeller le lecteur sur son quotidien et ses rêves…et en même temps, s’ancrer sur le présent à vivre intensément. External links