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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463803303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bamenda, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9956-792-52-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

412

Soggetti

Onomastics - Africa

Names in literature

Globalization in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.