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  • Transnationalism in Southern African Literatureby Stefan Helgesson

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 144.00

    Looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. This study suggests that the prevalence of 'colonial' languages such as English and Portuguese in 'anticolonial' or 'postcolonial' African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network. more...

  • A Grammar of Etonby Mark L.O. Van de Velde

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 238.00

    A Grammar of Eton is a full grammatical description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton, spoken just north of the capital Yaoundé. It is entirely based on original fieldwork, since Eton has no written tradition and had never been studied before. This study provides an analysis of Eton's sound structures and of the structure of words and clauses,... more...

  • A Grammar of Jamsayby Jeffrey Heath

    De Gruyter 2008; US$ 238.00

    This is the first complete grammar of any of the twenty or so Dogon languages of Mali, West Africa. Its most interesting features are the systematic use of stem-wide tone contour overlays, and of intonational effects, for grammatical purposes, for example, marking the head NP of a relative clause, and expressing 'X and Y' coordination. more...

  • Christ in Japanese Cultureby Emi Mase-Hasegawa

    BRILL 2008; US$ 115.00

    This ground-breaking study on the Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist Endo Shusaku (1923-1996) uniquely combines western and Japanese religious, theological and philosophical thought. The author interprets Endo's central works such as "Silence" (1966), "The Samurai" (1980), and "Deep River" (1996), from a theological... more...

  • A Zen Waveby Matsuo Basho; Robert Aitken; W.S. Merwin

    Counterpoint 2003; US$ 15.00

    Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself by brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness of expression. The haiku verse form is a superb means of studying Zen modes of thought and expression, for its seventeen syllables impose a rigorous limitation that confines the poet to vital experience. Here haiku by Matsuo Basho (1644-94) ? the greatest Japanese... more...

  • This Perversion Called Loveby Margherita Long

    Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 52.50

    Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion. more...

  • Topics in Kwa Syntaxby Enoch Olade Aboh

    Springer 2009; US$ 129.99

    Edited by two leading experts on the languages of West Africa, this volume is the very first book to handle a range of topics in the syntax of Kwa, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by approximately 20 million people in Côte d?Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin and in the extreme southwestern corner of Nigeria. Kwa includes a total of... more...

  • African Languages in a Digital Ageby Don Osborn

    International Development Research Centre 2010; US$ 18.00

    With increasing numbers of computers and penetration of the Internet around the world, localization of the technology and the content it carries into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localization, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software... more...

  • The Changing Face of African Literatureby Bernard de Meyer; Neil Ten Kortenaar

    Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 67.20

    The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture – a synopsis of current trends in African literature – and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the nation-state and its collapse, AIDS, war, and... more...

  • Zimbabwean Transitionsby Z.Malaba Mbongeni; Geoffrey V. Davis

    Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 70.00

    This collection of essays on Zimbabwean literature brings together studies of both Rhodesian and Zimbabwean literature, spanning different languages and genres. It charts the at times painful process of the evolution of Rhodesian/ Zimbabwean identities that was shaped by pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial realities. The hybrid nature of the society... more...