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Nomenclatural poetization and globalization / edited by Adaku T. Ankumah.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Onomastics--Africa.
- Onomastics.
- Names in literature.
- Globalization in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This prolific collection of essays, with contributions from scholars from across several disciplines, on the practice and implications of naming - Nomenclatural Poetization and Globalization - explores diverse concerns in onomastics, such as cultural and ethnic implications as well as individual identity formation processes in the age of Globalization and extends these to a variety of contemporary theories of appreciation and internationalization.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Interpreting names and naming as social force : an historico-philological comment / Richard Evans
- Liquid realities : romantic transience and the use of names in Emmanuel Fru Doh / Antonio Jimenez-Munoz
- Colonial violence and postcolonial amnesia : a reading of Michelle Cliff's Abeng / Blossom Fondo
- Names, power relationships and influences in Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Married but available / Benjamin Hart Fishkin
- Ironic onomastic strategies of Calixthe Beyala and Chimamanda Adichie / Robert Miller & Gloria Onyeoziri
- The politics of names in the age of globalization : examining the socio-political consequences / Stephen Magu
- The global reader and names in literary works by Peter W. Vakunta, Bill F. Ndi and Emmanuel Fru Doh / Bill F. Ndi
- All in a name : nomenclature in Francis B. Nyamnjoh's The travail of Dieudonne and Bill F. Ndi's Gods in the ivory towers / Adaku T. Ankumah
- Names and nomenclatural distortions as dramatic technique in Anglophone-Cameroon literature / Emmanuel Fru Doh
- Character nomenclature, the bead-string in Thomas Jing's Tale of an African woman / Adaku T. Ankumah, Benjamin Hart Fishkin, & Bill F. Ndi.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 28, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9789956792528
- 9956792527
- OCLC:
- 933515757
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