SOAS Research Online

Book Chapters

Fuehrer, Bernhard (1997) 'Die verklausulierte Projektion der Zukunft in die Vergangenheit. Ein Versuch ueber die "Die Ballade vom angebissenen Shaobing" (Shaobingge).' In: Fuehrer, Bernhard and Hammer, Christiane, (eds.), Tradition und Moderne. Religion, Philosophie und Literatur in China. Dortmund: Projekt Verlag, pp. 113-142.

Furniss, Graham (1997) 'Hausa literature.' In: Middleton, John, (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 8-9.

Kibble, Rodger, Marten, Lutz and Meyer-Viol, Wilfried (1997) 'Incremental interpretation using a tree description language.' In: Dekker, Paul, Stokhof, Martin and Venema, Yde, (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, pp. 199-204.

Marten, Lutz (1997) 'Licensing constraints for Swahili vowel harmony.' In: Markve, Stephen, Pennings, Evelien and Tsukiashi, Ayumi, (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Manchester Postgraduate Linguistics Conference. Manchester: University of Manchester, pp. 239-255. (Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester)

Wilson-Tagoe, Nana (1997) 'Reading towards a theorisation of African women''s writing: African women writers within feminist gynocriticism.' In: Newell, Stephanie, (ed.), Writing African Women. Gender Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa. London: Zed Books, pp. 11-28.

Journal Article

Harding, Frances (1997) 'Challenging Aristotle: the form of an African drama.' Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 17. pp. 93-124.

Orwin, Martin and Cabdullaahi, Maxamed (1997) 'An approach to relationships between Somali metre types.' African Languages and Cultures, 10 (1). pp. 83-100.

Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé (1997) 'Some place-names in Akoko-land: an etymological inquiry.' African Languages and Cultures, 10 (2). pp. 157-180.

Topan, Farouk (1997) 'Biography writing in Swahili.' History in Africa, 24. pp. 299-307.

Book Reviews

Easton, Kai (1997) 'Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life].' The Boston Sunday Globe . N1, N4.

Easton, Kai (1997) 'A family at the center of South Africa's salvation [Review of Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing].' The Boston Sunday Globe . N14.

Other

Orwin, Martin (1997) 'Somali/Somalia/Somaliland: Ethnography [an] Geography [and] History 1880-1960 [and] The role of Islam in Somali society [and] Language [and] Literature.' In: Encyclopaedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. 713-4, 714.