Ndobo Grace E. Essoh
Volume: 14 Issue: 04, 2026
Abstract:
The literary work is a text that increasingly opens up to several disciplines, including music, painting, and other visual arts. Thus, a literary work of art is a plural and dynamic text that should be analyzed flexibly, according to approaches that take into account the aforementioned complex character of literature. This article explores the thesis mentioned above, by showing how the three concepts of the natural environment, the contact with the Other, and the crossing of boundaries are illustrated in four Cameroonian literary works written in Spanish. This study demonstrates that environmental protection is a preponderant theme in number of Cameroonian literary works written in the Spanish language. Many of such Cameroonian works praise environmental movements by presenting nature as an entity that is essential to human life on earth. The article also shows that the works under study offer a certain subjective representation of the Other – who is often the Westerner. These works portray the Westerner as someone who is individualistic and feminist. The study also argues that crossing boundaries in the works under study can be illustrated in two ways: breaking writing norms and the conventions that govern the categorization of literary genres, and the fact that writers infuse their works with phenomena typical of oral and visual arts.