Emmerencia Beh Sih hails from Esu/Wum, Menchum Division of the North West Region of Cameroon. She is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a part- time lecturer in The University of Bamenda. She had her General Certificate of Education (GCE), Ordinary and Advanced levels in Kulu Memorial Comprehensive High School,Limbe. She continued with her BA and MA in Literatures in English from the University of Buea, Cameroon, then, moved to The University of Bamenda where she obtained her PhD in Anglo-American Literature. She is a literary critic and a creative writer. She has authored and co-authored fourteen journal articles, a book chapter, a short story and poems in different Anthologies including Bearing Witness:Poems from the Land of Turmoil, Ripples of Endless Muses: An Anthology of Modern Poems, Multifarious Shades of Life: An Anthology of Poems, Aulos: An Anthology of English Poetry and Otherwise Engaged. She is interested in contemporary discourses, especially studies for, by and about women.
Religación. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2021
Drama is a genre in literature that recreates not only existing actions but also interprets the d... more Drama is a genre in literature that recreates not only existing actions but also interprets the different versions of truth put on stage. Sarah Kane, a dramatist, is usually associated with the new theatrical form of writing called the in-yer-face theatre. Kane, after writing her last play, 4.48 Psychosis commits suicide. For this reason, many critics consider this play as a ‘suicide notes’ which makes it limiting since these critics do not pay attention to her extensive use of styles and her experimental shift from conservative to avant-garde dramatic constructions. While her earlier works Blasted, Phaedra’s Love and Cleansed were centred principally on shock irritating violent and relatively hostile metaphors, the style of her two last plays Crave and 4.48 Psychosis shifts blatantly as they are written in a conspicuously poetic style. Her last play which is the focus of this study swings from conventional to unconventional style of writing given that she deviates from the classica...
Religación. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2021
Drama is a genre in literature that recreates not only existing actions but also interprets the d... more Drama is a genre in literature that recreates not only existing actions but also interprets the different versions of truth put on stage. Sarah Kane, a dramatist, is usually associated with the new theatrical form of writing called the in-yer-face theatre. Kane, after writing her last play, 4.48 Psychosis commits suicide. For this reason, many critics consider this play as a ‘suicide notes’ which makes it limiting since these critics do not pay attention to her extensive use of styles and her experimental shift from conservative to avant-garde dramatic constructions. While her earlier works Blasted, Phaedra’s Love and Cleansed were centred principally on shock irritating violent and relatively hostile metaphors, the style of her two last plays Crave and 4.48 Psychosis shifts blatantly as they are written in a conspicuously poetic style. Her last play which is the focus of this study swings from conventional to unconventional style of writing given that she deviates from the classica...
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