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  • Encyclopedia of African Literatureby Simon Gikandi

    Routledge 2002; US$ 59.95

    The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book contains over 600 entries that cover criticism and theory, its development as a field of scholarship, and studies of established and lesser-known writers. more...

  • Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australiaby William B. McGregor

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 185.00

    This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features. more...

  • Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimerby J. Thomas Rimer

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 360.00

    Widely acknowledged as the doyen of twentieth-century Japanese literature, fine art and the performing arts, as well as being renowned for his translations of Zeami and Mori Ogai. more...

  • Body in Postwar Japanese Fictionby Douglas Slaymaker

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 190.00

    This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse. more...

  • Australian Languagesby R. M. W. Dixon; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. Ewen; R. Lass

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 84.00

    Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. more...

  • Sunjataby Gordon Innes

    Taylor & Francis 1975; US$ 41.95

    The three texts in this book are by three of The Gambia?s leading bards, Bamba Suso, Banna Kanute and Dembo Kanute. A brief biographical note on each of these three bards will be found before the text which each has provided. The texts by Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute are included here as illustrative of the differences of both style and content which can occur between two performances of the ?same? epic. Dembo Kanute?s text is an example of a narration which draws upon the Sunjata epic, but where the focus of interest is not Sunjata himself, but one of his generals. more...

  • Voice and Powerby B. W Andrzejewski; R J Hayward; M Lewis

    Routledge 1996; US$ 90.00

    This text is devoted to studies of the languages and cultures of the Cushitic-speaking peoples of the Horn of Africa. It is concerned with linguistics in a technical sense, and analyzes the oral literature of the people of the area. more...

  • Politics Of (m)otheringby Obioma Nnaemeka

    Routledge 1996; US$ 39.95

    This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. more...

  • The Fantastic In Modern Japanese Literatureby Susan Napier

    Taylor & Francis 1995; US$ 64.95

    An exploration of the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. A wide range of fantasists form the basis for a ground breaking analysis of the fantastic. more...