Hassam Yosimbom Mbiydzenyuy holds an MA in Comparative Literature (2000) from the University of Buea, Cameroon and a PhD in African Literature (2016) from the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon. He was a 2019 ARUA-Mellon Fellow (University of Ghana, Legon) and during his tenure, he researched on “Mobility and Sociality in Africa’s Emerging Urban.” His research interests include Identity Dynamics, Mobility, Postcolonial Studies and Cosmopolitanism. Additionally, he is interested in understanding the links between Postcolonial and Postmodern theories, and how their interplay shapes and nurtures multiple-layered identity formations and performances in postcolonial societies, especially Cameroon. He is also keen on researching Latin American epistemological foundations such as Transmodernity, Coloniality, Decoloniality, Pluriversality, etc. and how they could be used to de-/re-construct postcolonial African societies.
Selected Publications
Journals
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Dialogics: Polyphonic Discourse as Textual Re-historization and Historical Re- textualization in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” Epasa Moto: A Bilingual Journal of Arts, Science and Cultures, 3(2), 2008, pp. 83-109.
- Yosimbom, H.M. (2016). “Imperial Localism, Cosmopolitan Localism and the Cameroon Anglophone Decolonial Option in John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s Across the Mongolo.” Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa, 21(1), 2016, pp. 70-86.
- Yosimbom, H.M. Mapping Heterotopias of Apocryphal History in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s The Travail of Dieudonné.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 29(4), 2018, pp. 288-307.
Book Chapters
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Francis Nyamnjoh’s The Disillusioned African: A Philosophy of Liberation.” In The Repressed Expressed: Novel Perspectives on Black and Diasporic Literature, edited by B. Ndi, A. Ankuma and B. Fishkin, Bamenda: Langaa, 2017, pp. 1-21.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Souls Forgotten: Unpacking Minority Struggles.” In Living (In)Dependence: Critical Perspectives on Global Interdependence, edited by B. Ndi, A. Ankumah, and B. Fishkin, Bamenda: Langaa, 2018, pp. 1-29.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Bate Besong’s Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus and Emanyankpe Collected Poems: Unmasking Francophone Cameroons’ Epistemicide.” In Living (In)Dependence: Critical Perspectives on Global Interdependence, edited by B. Ndi, A. Ankumah, and B. Fishkin, Bamenda: Langaa, 2018, pp. 217-51.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Shadow Lines: Confrontations, Configurations and Transpositions in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Intimate Strangers.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 16-43.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “The Divide That Binds? Francophone and Anglophone Cultures in Multi-Logue in Mathew Takwi’s Messing Manners.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 44-69.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Neither Gallocentrics nor Anglocentrics: Tetraglossia in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s A Nose for Money and The Travail of Dieudonné.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 70-94.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Paratextuality in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Mind Searching.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 95-120.