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Encyclopedia of African Literatureby Simon Gikandi
Routledge 2002; US$ 59.95The 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$ 185.00This 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$ 360.00Widely 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$ 190.00This 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$ 84.00Aboriginal 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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this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$ 41.95The 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$ 90.00This 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$ 39.95This 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$ 64.95An 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...