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

• Pubblicazione: Bamenda, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 412
• Soggetto topico: Onomastics - Africa; Names in literature; Globalization in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): AnkumahAdaku T.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nomenclatural poetization and globalization
• ISBN: 9956-792-52-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463803303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II