Nomenclatural poetization and globalization /
Nomenclatural poetization and globalization /
edited by Adaku T. Ankumah.
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 230 pages .)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; The Editor; Authors; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One -- Interpreting Names and Naming as Social Force: An Historico-Philological Comment; Chapter Two -- Liquid Realities: Romantic Transience and the Use of Names in Emmanuel Fru Doh; Chapter Three -- Colonial Violence and Postcolonial Amnesia: A Reading of Michelle Cliff's Abeng; Chapter Four -- Names, Power Relationships and Influences in Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Married but Available; Chapter Five -- Ironic Onomastic Strategies of Calixthe Beyala and Chimamanda Adichie. Chapter Six -- The Politics of Names in the Age of Globalization: Examining the Socio-Political ConsequencesChapter Seven -- The Global Reader and Names in Literary Works by Peter W. Vakunta, Bill F. Ndi and Emmanuel Fru Doh; Chapter Eight -- All in a Name: Nomenclature in Francis B. Nyamnjoh's The Travail of Dieudonné and Bill F. Ndi's Gods in the Ivory Towers; Chapter Nine -- Names and Nomenclatural Distortions as Dramatic Technique in Anglophone-Cameroon Literature; Chapter Ten -- Character Nomenclature, the Bead-string in Thomas Jing's Tale of an African Woman; Index; Back cover.
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.
9956792527 (electronic bk.) 9789956792528 (electronic bk.) (paperback) (paperback)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
Onomastics--Africa.
Names in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Onomastique--Afrique.
Noms dans la littérature.
Mondialisation dans la littérature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Etymology.
Globalization in literature.
Names in literature.
Onomastics.
Literatur
Namenkunde
Africa.
Afrika
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P323.4.A35 / N66 2014
412
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; The Editor; Authors; Contents; Introduction; Chapter One -- Interpreting Names and Naming as Social Force: An Historico-Philological Comment; Chapter Two -- Liquid Realities: Romantic Transience and the Use of Names in Emmanuel Fru Doh; Chapter Three -- Colonial Violence and Postcolonial Amnesia: A Reading of Michelle Cliff's Abeng; Chapter Four -- Names, Power Relationships and Influences in Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Married but Available; Chapter Five -- Ironic Onomastic Strategies of Calixthe Beyala and Chimamanda Adichie. Chapter Six -- The Politics of Names in the Age of Globalization: Examining the Socio-Political ConsequencesChapter Seven -- The Global Reader and Names in Literary Works by Peter W. Vakunta, Bill F. Ndi and Emmanuel Fru Doh; Chapter Eight -- All in a Name: Nomenclature in Francis B. Nyamnjoh's The Travail of Dieudonné and Bill F. Ndi's Gods in the Ivory Towers; Chapter Nine -- Names and Nomenclatural Distortions as Dramatic Technique in Anglophone-Cameroon Literature; Chapter Ten -- Character Nomenclature, the Bead-string in Thomas Jing's Tale of an African Woman; Index; Back cover.
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.
9956792527 (electronic bk.) 9789956792528 (electronic bk.) (paperback) (paperback)
Title subscribed to via ProQuest Academic Complete
Onomastics--Africa.
Names in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Onomastique--Afrique.
Noms dans la littérature.
Mondialisation dans la littérature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Etymology.
Globalization in literature.
Names in literature.
Onomastics.
Literatur
Namenkunde
Africa.
Afrika
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P323.4.A35 / N66 2014
412