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Title Nomenclatural poetization and globalization / edited by Adaku T. Ankumah.

Publication Info. Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 230 pages .)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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Subject Onomastics -- Africa.
Onomastics.
Africa.
Names in literature.
Names in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Globalization in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Ankumah, Adaku T., 1956- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9789956792993 9956792993
ISBN 9956792527 electronic book
9789956792528 electronic book
9789956792993 paperback
9956792993 paperback