Mineke Schipper
Dutch writer, Professor emeritus Literary studies at Leiden University, country specialization: Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and Africa in general
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mineke Schipper is a Dutch author of non-fiction and fiction. As a scholar she is best known for her work on comparative literature mythologies and intercultural studies. Description of the author Thanks to her critical global perspective, Schipper has given an important impulse to the field of intercultural literary studies. Making her views accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences, she lectures not only at universities and scientific institutes , but also to audiences outside the academy, such as policy makers in The Hague or Brussels.
Mineke Schipper's Published Works
Published Works
- Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from around the World (2003) (45)
- OKONKWO AND HIS MOTHER Things Fall Apart and Issues of Gender in the Constitution of (1993) (43)
- Imagining Insiders: Africa and the Question of Belonging (1999) (30)
- Theatre and society in Africa (1982) (18)
- Emerging from the shadows : changing patterns in gender matters (1996) (12)
- Source of All Evil: African Proverbs and Sayings on Women (1992) (11)
- Culture, identity, and interdiscursivity (1993) (10)
- Unheard Words: Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America (1986) (9)
- 'Who am I?' Fact and fiction in African first-person narrative (1985) (9)
- Beyond the Boundaries: Text and Context in African Literature (1990) (8)
- Knowledge is like an ocean: insiders, outsiders, and the academy (1997) (6)
- Beyond the Boundaries (1989) (3)
- The Verbal and the Visual in a Globalizing Context: African and European Connections as an Ongoing Process (2000) (3)
- Narratives, identities, selves: Intercultural perspectives on autobiography and first‐person narrative (2000) (2)
- Eurocentrism and criticism: Reflections on the study of literature in past and present (1984) (1)
- BOOK REVIEW: Wilfried van Damme.BEAUTY IN CONTEXT: TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO AESTHETICS. Leiden: E. J. (2000) (1)
- An Empty Calabash? Women's Beauty in African Proverbs North and South of the Sahara (2004) (1)
- Humanity’s Beginnings In Creation And Origin Myths From Around The World (2011) (1)
- Toward a Definition of Realism in the African Context (1985) (1)
- White and Black: Imagination and cultural confrontations (1990) (0)
- Traditional Themes and Techniques in African Theatre and ‘Francophonie’ (1984) (0)
- Beauty in Context: Towards an Anthropological Approach to Aesthetics (review) (2000) (0)
- Eurocentrism and the Study of Literature (1982) (0)
- Myth, Theory and Area Studies (2009) (0)
- Intercultural Literary Studies in an Age of Globalisation (2006) (0)
- Chapter Five. Stories Of The Beginning Origin Myths In Africa South Of The Sahara (2007) (0)
- Creation Myths and the Visual Arts: An Ongoing Dialogue between Word and Image (2009) (0)
- What Do We Share?: From the Local to the Global, and Back Again (2010) (0)
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