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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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