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Nyama And Heka: African Concepts Of The Word, Christopher Wise
Nyama And Heka: African Concepts Of The Word, Christopher Wise
English Faculty and Staff Publications
Knowledge of the West African griot epic has advanced enormously in the last fifteen years with the publication of volumes by Thomas Hale, Scribe, Griot, Novelist: Narrative Interpreters of the Songhay Empire1 and Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music,2 Stephen Belcher, Epic Traditions of Africa',3 and Barbara G. Hoffman, Griots At War: Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande.4 Despite the richness of these studies, the concept of nyama, the Mande word for occult "power" or "means," has remained a secondary concern of African cultural criticism.
Haunted Collections: Vernon Lee And Ethical Consumption, Kristin Mary Mahoney
Haunted Collections: Vernon Lee And Ethical Consumption, Kristin Mary Mahoney
English Faculty and Staff Publications
Vernon Lee's "The Doll" is the story of a collector's reformation. The thing (which perhaps should not be called a thing) that is responsible for putting the collector "out of conceit with ferreting about among dead people's properties" is a doll that once belonged to a widowed count. The count had spent hours each day holding this life-sized mannequin, which had been dressed in his wife's clothing and a wig fashioned from her hair. When the count died, the doll was cast into a closet. The collector encounters the doll while shopping for bric-a brac and presses her curiosity dealer …