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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

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.