Robert Stockhammer is professor of General and Comparative Literary Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Robert Stockhammer is professor of General and Comparative Literary Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Africa is no nonliterate continent, especially so if one includes its northern coastal area: more than two thousand years ago, methods of dealing with scripts - today called philology - were developed in Alexandria. Robert Stockhammer discusses contributions to an African Philology, including works by Herodotus, Augustine, Ken Saro-Wiwa and J.M. Coetzee: epics, novels, travelogues,...