Challenging Precarious Work in Anglophone Cameroonian Women’s Literature: A Feminist Analysis of Anne Tanyi-Tang’s Visiting America and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers

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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795353

Naomi Nkealah

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Contemporary Anglophone Cameroonian women’s literature is concerned with the ways in which African immigrant women in the USA are compelled by the American economic system to take on nursing jobs in the absence of alternatives. The play Visiting America (2006) by Anne Tanyi-Tang and the novel Behold the Dreamers (2016) by Imbolo Mbue address this phenomenon by presenting women characters who are being coerced, literally and figuratively, to enter the field of nursing as the only means of survival in America. Applying the theoretical ideas of precarity and precariousness, this article analyses the two selected texts to illustrate the precariousness of nursing for immigrant women in the USA, the glamourisation of this precariousness, and women’s resistance of this glamourisation.

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挑战喀麦隆英语女性文学中的不稳定工作——对唐安妮的《访美记》和伊姆波洛·姆布的《看，梦想家》的女权主义分析

当代讲英语的喀麦隆妇女文学关注的是美国的非洲移民妇女在没有其他选择的情况下，被美国经济体系强迫从事护理工作的方式。唐（Anne Tanyi Tang）的戏剧《访问美国》（Visiting America）（2006）和姆布埃（Imbolo Mbue。本文运用不稳定和不稳定的理论思想，对所选的两篇文本进行分析，以说明美国移民女性护理的不稳定、这种不稳定的魅力化以及女性对这种魅力化的抵制。

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期刊介绍： Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa is published bi-annually by Routledge. Current Writing focuses on recent writing and re-publication of texts on southern African and (from a ''southern'' perspective) commonwealth and/or postcolonial literature and literary-culture. Works of the past and near-past must be assessed and evaluated through the lens of current reception. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two referees of international stature in the field. The journal is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.