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Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-014
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
... African religion spiritual terror comparative historical linguistics Imbangala Raimundo Nina Rodrigues ...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059547-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
...,” respectively. The author employs methodology from comparative historical linguistics to show that Bantu-language speakers would not have confused the two terms, even though earlier generations of scholars suggested that that was the case. The approach also reveals that Zumbi’s name evoked water and life-giving...
Book Chapter

By Marc A Hertzman
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5954-7
...,” respectively. The author employs methodology from comparative historical linguistics to show that Bantu-language speakers would not have confused the two terms, even though earlier generations of scholars suggested that that was the case. The approach also reveals that Zumbi’s name evoked water and life-giving...
Published: 01 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374572-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7457-2
... languages in a relationship of translation. However, this linguistic complexity and the politics of language it implies are deflected in Ileto’s later autobiographical writings, where Ileto is more concerned with dramatizing his relationship with his father. He compares his father’s experiences...
Published: 11 November 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7369-8
... differentiation between what he says about globalization and world literature and what Ranjan Ghosh says in his chapter 5. Miller holds that a special theory should be derived in each case from the terminology of the text at hand in light of its specific, surrounding, historical, biographical, and linguistic...