Vol. 5. No. 5
January 2003
Tel. Ext. 3363
EDITORIAL:
Electronic
bibliographic
utilities
continue to hold their own in academia
and to give much needed directional
guidance to scholars and researchers
rendering scholarly endeavours both
painless and exciting.
Recently, the Latin American and
Caribbean
Centre
at
Florida
International University, which came
into being in 1979, set up a new
website. It features easy-to-navigate
drop-down menus with sharp graphics
in eye-friendly, cool tones. It spans a
broad range of academic disciplines
including
history,
anthropology,
religious studies, music, dance, public
and educational administration and
environmental studies. You may visit
the site at:
http://lacic.fiu.edu
Still on Caribbeana, please note that
the XXII Annual West Indian Literature
Conference, hosted by Caribbean
Literary Studies and co-sponsored by
the Centre for Latin
e-mail: hummail@library.uwi.tt
American Studies, University of Miami,
will be held at the University of Miami
from 20th to 22nd March, 2003.
The
conference theme is: “Caribbean currents: Navigating the
web and the world.”
For more information please visit: http://www.as.miami.edu/english/c/s/
conference 2003.html
Hong Kong’s University Service Centre
for China Studies provides the most
comprehensive collection of materials
on post-1949 China in the world. It
remains an important source of
intellectual support and a meeting
ground for China specialists the world
over.
For more information please visit: www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk
Some significant recent developments
in British universities are worthy of note
here. First, Oxford University’s one-toone tutorial is being eroded to allow
academics more time to do research.
It is argued that this would be of benefit
to students by brining them into contact
with academics at the cutting edge of
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their disciplines, and that it is in the
general interest of Oxford to allow
more time for world-class research.
The future of the University of London is
in doubt after King’s College, London,
announced its plans to seek its own
degree-awarding powers. The move
came after King’s learnt of the merger
between Imperial College, London
(which has already applied for degreeawarding powers, which it expects to
receive
shortly),
and
University
College, London.
Under government proposals to be put
forward this year, British Universities
will
scrap
traditional
degree
classifications in favour of a US-style
average points score and a detailed
transcript of achievement.
In the Author’s Corner of this issue we
present the chronology of J.R.R. Tolkien.
R. Clarke
Editor
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ACQUISITIONS for the month of
January totaled TITLES in the following
subject areas: - 206
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North American
History
F
South/Central
America and
Caribbean History
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Education
M
Music
N
Visual Arts
P
Linguistics
PA
Greek/Latin
Language and
Literature
PB, -PE
Celtic/Romanic/
Germanic Language
PG
Russian /Spanish
Language Literature
PJ,PK
Oriental Language
& Literature
PL
African Language
& Literature
PM
Creole/Indian
Language
PN
Literary Criticism,
Mass Media
PQ
French Language
and Literature
PR
English and West
Indian Literature
PS - PZ
American Literature &
European Literature
Z4- Z8387 Library Science
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Bibliographies
ZA
Internet
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Interesting TITLES include: -
Call No. Subject Area
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B-BD;
BG-BJ
BL-BX
CC
D-DP
DS
DT
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General Information
Philosophy
Religion
Archaeology
European History
Eastern History
African History
6
7
1
19
14
25

African
modernities.
Entangled meanings in current
debate/ edited by Jan-Georg
Deutsch et al, 2002.
This inter-disciplinary collection,
from history to anthropology and
sociology to philosophy, brings
some of these wider issues and
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controversies to bear upon African
studies.
[Call no. DT3. A47 2002]

Baudelaire and the poetics of
modernity/ edited by Patricia A.
Ward, 2001.
“The essays in this volume
examine Baudelaire’s poetics and
complex relationship between the
poet and his twentieth century
literary heirs, including René Char,
Yves Bonnefoy and Michel Deguy.”
[Call no. PQ2191. Z5 B358 2001]
 The complete short stories of
Marcel Proust. Compiled and
translated
be
Joachim
Neugroschel, 2001.
“In The Complete Short Stories of
Marcel Proust, award-winning
translator Joachim Neugroschel
offers readers a new translation of
Pleasures and Days, the first in
over fifty years, and one that fully
renders the vitality and delicate
irony of the original French.”
E.A.
Monteith
Richards, 2002.
and
Glen
“This collection of eighteen original
essays
considers
aspects
of
Jamaican history not covered in
more general histories of the island,
and
illuminates
more
recent
developments in Jamaican and
West Indian history.”
[Call no. F1881 J35 2002]

Jorge Amado.
New critical
essays/ edited by Kenneth H.
Brower et al, 2001.
“Although, as his critics maintain,
Amados work may be flawed and,
at times, even crippled by various
faults, he remains an optimistic and
forward-looking artist/intellectual,
one who continues to exert a
progressive force in both Brazilian
fiction and Brazilian culture.”
[Call no. PQ9697. A647 Z465 2001]

Making Callaloo. 25 years of
Black Literature/ edited by
Charles Henry Rowell, 2002.
[Call no. PQ2631. R63 A265 2001]
“A truly compelling collection of
poetry and fiction by some of the
most influential names in Black
literature today, all previously
published within the pages of the
literary journal Callaloo.”

Historia
de
la
literatura
hispanoamericana. I. De los
orígenes a la Emancipacion/
par Jose Miguel Oviedo, 1995.
[Call no. PQ7081.085 1995. Vol. 1]

Jamaica
in
slavery
and
freedom.
History, heritage
and culture/ edited by Kathleen
[Call no. PS508. N3 M28 2002]
 The
Maroon
narrative.
Caribbean
Literature
in
English across boundaries,
ethnicities and centuries/ by
Cynthia James, 2002.
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“Few scholars would disagree that
not merely a dialogism, but a
continuity exists on either side of
the colonial/postcolonial divide.
It is this dialogism and this
continuity that The Maroon
Narrative seeks to highlight
without pre-empting the longstanding pre-occupation with the
literature of the last fifty years.”
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New issues of the following JOURNALS
contain important and helpful articles: 
[Call no. PR9205. J35 2002]
African Affairs. Vol. 101, No. 405,
October 2002
-
In “Justice denied: political
violence in Kwazulu – Natal
after 1994” Rupert Taylor
presents three case studies “to
unravel
post-apartheid
violence in Kwazulu – Natal,
South
Africa
–
the
Shabashobane
massacre
(1995); the Richmond killings
(1997-98);
the
Norgoma
assassinations (1999-2000).
-
“Oxfam sought to reduce the
technical
aspects
of
development to a secondary
consideration, and hence failed
to analyze adequately the
material and physical impact of
its and the government’s
development policy.”
So
concludes Michael Jennings in
“ ‘Almost an OXFAM in itself’:
OXFAM,
UJAMAA
and
development in Tanzania”.
 Problem of the century. Racial
stratification in the United
States/
edited
by
Elijah
Anderson and Douglas S.
Massey, 2001.
“In 1899, the great African
American scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois,
published
The
Philadelphia
Negro – the first systematic study
of an African American community.
Problems of the Century reflects
upon his prophecy, exploring
ways in which the ‘colour line’ is
still visible in America.”
[Call no. E184. A1 P74 2001]

V.S. Naipaul: An introduction/
by Yashoda Bhat, 2000
“The recent concept of New
Literatures in the English Language
is still a new one and has not gained
sufficient currency and popularity.
An introduction to the context of
these literatures, the geographical,
cultural and historical background
becomes useful when commencing
the study of the authors from such
regions. The book V.S. Naipaul:
An introduction provides such a
background to V.S. Naipaul.”
[Call no. PR9272.9. N32 Z574
2000]
[Call no. DT1 J86 R8]

ARIEL. Vol.32, No. 3, July 2001
- “One
pressing
historical
problem and modern cultural
crisis that “Frankenstein’s”
interpreters
have
largely
overlooked, however, is that of
British imperial slavery and its
aftermath.”
So notes John
Clement Ball in “Imperial
monstrosities: “Frankenstein”,
the West Indies and V.S.
Naipaul.”
- “In the Caribbean context, the
history
–
determining
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“encounter” is most often
defined as that by European, the
Old World, in an event-creating
meeting with the New World.”
So notes Evelyn Hawthorne in
“Persistence
of
(Colonial)
memory: Jean Rhys’s Carib texts
and imperial historiography.”
[Call no. P11. S83]

In this issue you will find: -
[Call no. PR1. A698]

- “Trinitarian unity in Latentation
de Saint Antoine” by Allan H.
Pasco.
English. Vol. 51, No. 201, Autumn
2002
-
In “Whose Jerusalem? –
Prophecy and the problem of
destination in Geoffrey Hill’s
Canaan
and
Churchill’s
Funeral
Marcus
Waithe
observes that “critics have for
long
emphasized
the
‘historical’ qualities of Geoffrey
Hill’s verse; they have dwelt on
his preoccupation with the past,
on his attempts to combine a
representation of the dead with
an insistent criticism of the very
wish to commemorate.”
- “Remaining
human:
Robert
Antlme’s L’espece humaine”
by Martin Crowley.
- “Other than becoming: Jean
Rouch and the ethnics of Les
maitres fous” by Sarah
Cooper.
[Call no. PQ1. F6]

The Journal of Asian Studies. Vol.
61, No. 3, August 2002
-
[Call no. PR1. E58]

French Studies. Vol. LV1, No. 4,
October 2002
Studies in Second Language
Acquisition. Vol. 24, No. 4,
December 2002
In this issue you will find: - “The compounding parameter
in
second
language
acquisition”
by
Roumyana
Slabakova.
- “Morphological and syntactic
transfer in Child L2 acquisition
of the English dative alteration”
by Melinda Whong-Barr and
Bonnie D. Scwartz.
- “Form-meaning mapping in
vocabulary acquisition in a
second language” by Nan
Jiang.
In “Subjects selves, and the
politics of personhood in
Theravada Budhism in Nepal”,
Lauren G. Leve concludes that
“the political vicissitudes of
Theravada Budhists in Nepal
illustrate
a
history
of
competition
between
Theravada Budhists and the
Hindu state in their parallel
concerns to fashion subjects
and citizens.”
[Call no. DS1 J86 A8]

Journal
of
Latin
American
Studies. Vol. 34, part 3, August
2002
In this issue you will find: -
“New help or new hegemony?
The translational indigenous
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people’ movement and ‘being
Indian’ in El Salvador” by
Virginia Q. Tilley.
-
“Imaging El Ser Argentino:
cultural
nationalism
and
romantic
concepts
of
nationhood in early twentieth
century Argentina” by Jeane H.
Delaney.
-
“The politics of pension reform
in Latin America” by Camelo
Mesa-Lago
and
Katharina
Muller.
[Call no. F1401. J86 L3]

J.R.R.Tolkien
Kunapipi. Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1 & 2,
2002
This is a special issue of post-apartheid
South Africa. In the words of its Editor,
Kunapipi “has been impressed by
evidence of a creative energy that has
clearly risen to meet the demands of a
nation ‘at the cross-roads’ and a
freedom that is yet to be fully realized.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
[Call no. PR9080. A1 K96]
1894
1891
1892
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1895
CHRONOLOGY
1896
1900
1901
1902
Mabel Suffield moves to Africa to
marry Arthur Tolkien, English
manager
of
a
bank
in
Bloemfontein, South Africa.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is
born.
His younger brother, Hilary
Arthur Reuel is born.
Mabel with children returns to
England and live with her
relatives in Birmingham, waiting
for Arthur.
Arthur Tolkien dies in Africa.
Mabel with sons moves outside
Birmingham, to Sarehole. Mabel
begins to teach Ronald Latin,
French,
German,
drawing,
painting and handwriting.
Mabel Tolkien becomes Catholic
and converts her sons. Ronald
enters King Edward VI School,
and
they
move
back
to
Birmingham.
They move to a villa behind
King's Health Station
They move to a suburb of
Edgbaston. Ronald enrolls at St.
Phillip's Grammar School.
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1903
Tolkien returns to King Edward's,
where he becomes a scholarship
student and learns Middle
English and Greek.
1904 Mabel Tolkien dies. A parish
priest Father Francis Morgan
becomes guardian for the Tolkien
brothers.
1905 Tolkien and brother live with
Aunt Beatrice.
1906-11 Tolkien privately studies Old
English, Old Norse, and Gothic,
begins to invent languages with
their
own
grammars
and
histories, and writes poems, some
in invented languages.
1908 Tolkien brothers are moved to
Mrs. Faulkner's boardinghouse.
Edith Bratt, also an orphan, is
there.
1909 That autumn Father Morgan
discovers the romance between
Ronald and Edith, which he fears
may lead to early marriage and
ruin Tolkien's career prospects.
Tolkien fails to win an Oxford
scholarship.
1910 Father Morgan moves the boys.
Ronald is forbidden to contact
Edith until he is twenty-one. She
leaves
Birmingham.
Ronald
speaks Gothic and Old English in
a school debate. He is awarded a
small scholarship to study
classical languages at Exeter
College, Oxford. He also learns
some Old Norse and Spanish.
1911 Creates the Tea Club and
Barrovian Society at grammar
school. Begins the study of
comparative philology under
Joseph Wright, joins and camps
with a cavalry regiment, reads a
paper on the Kalevala (a Finnish
mythological epic), writes poems.
1913 Turns twenty-one, contacts Edith
Bratt. She breaks engagement to
another man. He takes a Second
Class in exams and transfers from
classics to English, with emphasis
on philology, and formally
studies Old Norse.
1914 Edith converts to Catholicism,
and they are formally engaged.
Britain declares war on Germany.
Tolkien decides to complete his
degree before serving.
1915 Receives First Class Honours on
final
examination;
takes
a
commission, and begins army
training. Continues to write
poetry in "fairy language" and
English,
including
the
anthologized "Goblin Feet."
1916 Marries Edith Bratt on 22 March,
leaves for France on 4 June, and
participates in the Battle of the
Somme. Is stricken with "trench
fever," returning home on 8
November.
1917 Convalescing begins The Book of
Lost Tales--the first draft of what
later
will
be
called
The
Silmarillion, specifically, The Fall
of Gondolin. The first son, John,
is born.
1918 Accepts a position as a junior
staff member of the New English
Dictionary that is later called
Oxford English Dictionary at
Oxford and works in the letter
"w."
1920 Begins The Father Christmas
Letters. The second son, Michael,
is born. Appointed Reader in
English Language at Leeds
University.
1922 Publishes a Middle English
Vocabulary. Begins work on the
new edition of Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight with E.V.
Gordon.
1924 Appointed Professor of English
Language at Leeds. The third son,
Christopher, is born.
1925 The Sir Gawain... is published.
Moves from Leeds to Oxford
where he is elected Rawlinson
and Bosworth Professor of AngloSaxon.
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1926
1928
1929
1930
1932
1934
1936
1937
1938
1939
1943
1944
1945
Forms "The Coalbiters," a faculty
club reading Old Norse. Meets
C.S. Lewis.
Writes the first sentence of The
Hobbit (other sources indicate
that it happened in 1930 or 1931).
His daughter, Priscilla, is born.
Completes full draft of The
Silmarillion (printed in The
Shaping of Middle-earth, 1986).
Tolkien shows the manuscript of
The Hobbit to C.S. Lewis.
Receives two-year Leverhulme
Research Fellowship.
Delivers lecture, "Beowulf: The
Monsters and the Critics,", before
British
Academy. Publishers
Allen and Unwin read the Hobbit
manuscript and suggest that he
complete it.
The Hobbit is a commercial and
critical success. Unwin asks for a
sequel. Tolkien submits Father
Christmas Letters and The
Silmarillion, but they are rejected.
In December, he writes first
chapter of "New Hobbit," which
will become
The Lord of the
Rings.
Expands Farmer Giles of Ham
manuscript to book length. The
Hobbit published in the US and
receives New York Herald
Tribune award as best children's
book of the season. Drafts twelve
chapters of The Lord of the Rings.
Lectures "On Fairy Stories" at St.
Andrew's University. Sixteen
chapters of the sequel written.
Son Christopher enters the Air
Force.
Tolkien writes long letters to
Christopher, and sends him
chapters of The Lord of the Rings,
now into book 5.
Leaf by Niggle is published in the
Dublin Review. Tolkien elected
Merton Professor of English
Language and Literature and says
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1954
1955
1956
1959
1962
1963
1964
1965
he is putting The Lord of the
Rings "before all else".
Notes discrepancies between The
Hobbit
and
its
sequel,
particularly as to the nature of the
ring. "On Fairy Stories" is
published.
The Lord of the Rings is
completed (according to other
sources the year is 1950).
Farmer Giles of Ham is
published.
Negotiates with Collins, a
London publisher, to publish The
Silmarillion along with the hobbit
sequel. Farmer Giles sells slowly.
Revised edition of The Hobbit
published.
Collins
returns
manuscripts.
Tolkien agrees to allow Allen and
Unwin to publish The Lord of the
Rings without Silmarillion.
First two volumes of The Lord....
is published.
The Return of the King is
published. Tolkien ceases to meet
regularly with Lewis.
Rings are translated into Dutch:
during the next 20 years it will be
translated into Swedish, Polish,
Danish, German, Italian, French,
Japanese, Finnish, and, the last
but not least, Russian.
Retires
from
the
Merton
professorship.
Tolkien
publishes
The
Adventures of Tom Bombadil
and his edition of the Middle
English Ancrene Wisse.
C.S.Lewis dies on 22 November.
Tree and Leaf is published.
An unauthorized Ace paperback
edition of Rings, the first
inexpensive
edition,
triggers
sudden popularity of Tolkien on
college campuses and attention
from the press. There is a legal
conflict over publishing rights.
An authorized revised edition
issued by Ballantine is a best
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1966
1967
1968
1970
1971
1972
1973
1977
1978
seller. Tolkien Society of America
is founded.
A revised, third edition of The
Hobbit is published. A collection
of earlier stories and essays, The
Tolkien Reader is published in
America.
Smith of Wootton Major is
published.
Poems and Songs of Middleearth, a record of Tolkien's poems
in English and Elvish set to
music, is issued. The Tolkiens
move to Poole, near Bornemouth,
a seaside resort.
The staff of the Oxford English
Dictionary compiles an entry for
"hobbit".
Edith Tolkien dies on 29th
November, aged eighty-two.
Tolkien returns to Oxford, with
rooms
at
Merton
College.
Receives honorary doctorate from
Oxford University and is made a
Commander of British Empire.
Visiting friends in Bornemouth,
becomes ill and dies a few days
later, on 2nd September, at
eighty-one years of age.
His son Christopher, as literary
executor, is left to complete The
Silmarillion
The Silmarillion is published with
the aid of Christopher.
The first Russian translation of
Tolkien
(The
Hobbit)
is
published.
FEATURES FORM THE SCHOOL OF
EDUCATION LIBRARY
[Call No. LB1139.35 A37 I86 2001]
Defining and redefining gender equity in
education/ Edited Janice Koch and
Beverly
Irby.
Information
Age
Publishing, 2002
[Call No. LC1752 D45 2002]
Guided comprehension: A teaching
model for grades 3-8/ Maureen
McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen.
International Reading Association, 2002
[Call No. LB1573.7 M35 2002]
Smart discipline for the classroom:
Respect and cooperation restored/ Larry
Koenig. Corwin Press, 2000
[Call No LB3012.2 K64 2000]
Widening the circle: Including children
with disabilities in preschool programs/
Edited Samuel L. Odom. Teachers
College Press, 2001
[Call No. LC4019.2 C36 2001]
ARTICLES OF INTEREST IN
JOURNALS
1. Helping
boys
succeed/
Deborah Taylor and Maureen
Lorimer.
Educational
Leadership, 60(4), Dec. 2002Jan. 2003.
For the month of January, the Library
received twenty-one (21) new books.
Some of the new titles are: -
This article gives some strategies
for increasing boys’ motivation.
Creative expression and play in early
childhood/ Joan Packer Isenberg and
Mary Renck Jalongo. Merrill Prentice
Hall, 2001
2. Integrating technology with
the teaching of an early
literacy course / Lesley
Mandel Morrow et al. The
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Reading Teacher,
November 2002
56(3),
This article describes an early
literacy course which uses many
kinds of technology to improve
teaching and learning.
3. Solving problems together:
The importance of parental/
school/
community
collaboration at a time of
educational
and
social
change/ Dora Mathews and
Rosanne Menna. Education
Canada, 43(1), Winter 2003.
This article looks at the value of school/
family and community partnerships
which have a positive effect on students’
learning and benefit all involved.
4. Teaching kids to control
anger/ Robert E. Glenn. The
Education
Digest,
68(3),
November 2002
The article looks at ways in which
teachers and counselors can assist
students in controlling their anger and
channeling it in a positive way.
THINGS OF INTERST TO TEACHERS
AND EDUCATORS
WEBSITES
www.readwritethink.org
On this website teachers can discover
new ways to engage students in reading
and language arts.
www.new-teachers.com
A resource site for new and potential
teachers with information on the
profession.
DISPLAYS IN THE LIBRARY
From 13-24th January, 2003, the Library
displayed its audio- visual collection.
The display generated a lot of interest.
OTHER
Beginning January16, 2003, the Library
received a one-month free trial of the
Silver Platter Wilson Education Abstracts
Full Text Database.
Janet Fullerton-Rawlins
Librarian II