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Eruvbetine, A.E. Intel/ectualized Emotions and the Art oj Jarnes Joyce.Hicksville: Exposition Press, 1980.

Ezeigbo, Akachi. Children of the Eagle. Lagos: Vista Books, 2002.----. "Traditional Women's Institutions in Igbo Society: Implications for the Igbo Female Writer" in African Languages and Cu/ture, Vol.3,No.2, 1990. pp.l49-165.

Kurzweil, Edith. "Jacques Lacan: French Freud" in The01y and Society, Vol.10, No.3, (May, 1981), pp. 419-438.

Moi, Tori!. Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, 1985.

colleagues may not yet know. Moreover, it surveys a fascinating range o

London & New York: Routiedge, I 990.

Oioko, Patrick. "Intoduction" in The Fielion of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: Issues and Perspectives. Lagos: African Cultural Institute, 2008. pp.

this Iist include bibliographies very usefi.tl as introductions to, say, the smal of African writers in Spain.

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Ragland-Sullivan, Ellie. "Jacques Lacan: Feminism and the Problem of Gender

institutional habitus of their display and curation in Europe, while anotIdentity" in Substance, Vol.ll, No.3, 1ssue 36 (1982) pp. 6-20.

basing their ar

White, Sarah. "Before Penis Envy" in The Warnen s Review of Books, Vol. xi, No. 7, April, 1994.

under Germany's complex system of rules goveming political asyl variety of material presented here is indeed wide.

Wyatt, Jean. "I Wanttobe You: Envy, the Lacanian Double, and FernirristCommunity in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride" in Tulsa

'nationalliberation'St11dies in Warnen s Literature, Vol. 17, No.l, Spring, 1998. pp.37-

arnbition to64.

"transcultural modemities" of African cultural production in Euro

Solomon 0. Azumurana, PhD Department of English

project, without actually moving terrib defining or theorizing what transcultural modemities might be. Severa make explicit attempts to do so: for example Frank Schulze-Engler n

University of Lagos.

of such a definition would involve becoming "awa new, complex realities created by transnational and transcultural process

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Edited volumes do not !end themselves to sustained argumentation, and this one presents none. It offers instead a broad range of individuals, studied as such and as diverse as the volume's authors and approaches, who are, as Schulze Engler suggests, coming up with new "things to do with culture" in their particular circumstances. Although this volume may not be a library's first choice onAfricans

Storytellersand Resistance. Athens: Ohio University2010.240 pp. Paper Back $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8214-192

Unlike some ofhis unimaginative peers who collect African fol

in Europe, it nonetheless repays study.

Seth Graebner, PhD

recognizes that the import of colle is to make possible interpretation, which expands on the possibilities inh in the primary (oral) texts. My fascination with oralliteratme led me to t

Washington University in Saint Louis

tales frorn Southem Africa. This

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