Literature New & Notable – Summer highlights

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 10, 2014|Literature|0 comments

Criticism, interpretation & collections The Cambridge introduction to travel writing / Tim Youngs. Desire between women in Caribbean literature / by Keja Valens. [Caribbean fiction — History and criticism.] Coloniality of diasporas : rethinking intra-colonial migrations in a Pan-Caribbean context / by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel. [Caribbean fiction — History and criticism.] Emerging literatures from Northeast India : the dynamics of culture, society and identity / edited by Margaret Ch Zama. [Indic literature (English)

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Les écritures mises au jour sur le site antique d’Ougarit (Syrie) et leur déchiffrement : 1930-2010 Commémoration du 80e anniversaire du déchiffrement de l’alphabet cunéiforme de Ras Shamra-Ougarit : Colloque international tenu au Collège de France, le jeudi 2 décembre 2010, et à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, le vendredi 3 décembre 2010 / actes édités par Pierre Bordreuil, Françoise Ernst-Pradal, Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault, … [et

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini. Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann. A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet. La collezione orientale

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Literature – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 15, 2013|Literature|0 comments

Criticism & interpretation Women writing violence : the novel and radical feminist imaginaries / Shreerekha Subramanian. Approaches to teaching The story of the stone (Dream of the red chamber) / edited by Andrew Schonebaum and Tina Lu. 文学革命与”新青年”传播 /陈斯华著 – Wen xue ge ming yu “Xin qing nian” chuan bo / Chen Sihua zhu. 子彈鴉片 : 天安門大屠殺的生死故事 / 廖亦武  – Zi dan ya pian : Tian’anmen da tu sha de

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sacred killing: the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz Temple building and temple cult:  architecture and cultic paraphernalia of temples in the Levant (2.-1. Mill. B.C.E.) : Proceedings of a conference on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (28th – 30th of May

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Literature – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 20, 2013|Literature|0 comments

Criticism & interpretation Changing currents : transnational Caribbean literary and cultural criticism / edited by Emily Allen Williams, Melvin B. Rahming. Southeast Asian writers / ed. by David Smyth. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. Love’s subtle magic : an Indian Islamic literary tradition, 1379-1545 / Aditya Behl Realism in the twentieth-century Indian novel : colonial difference and literary form / Ulka Anjaria. Life

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Literature – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 30, 2012|Literature|0 comments

Literature After sex? : on writing since queer theory / edited by Janet Halley and Andrew Parker. Feminism in West African novel / M. Farida Begum. The negritude moment : explorations in francophone African and Caribbean literature and thought / F. Abiola Irele. Neo-imperialism in children’s literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction / by Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae MacCann. The Oxford India anthology of Bengali literature /

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