NP HOD-related & etc.

[Doug Millison]

Aequatoria Book Bank Online(ABBOLL)
http://www.abbol.com/pages/fs_index_e.html

The goal of this ambitious site created and maintained by Centre
Aequatoria, an Africanist research center situated around the
Congolese city of Mbandaka, is to "develop an electronic library from
which africanist students and scholars in sub-Saharan Africa can
retrieve scientific publications free of charge." The means to this
goal Web-wise is the Aequatoria Archives Research Project, which
plans to make available "extensively annotated editions as well as
systematic interpretive analyses of documents from the archives of
the Centre Aequatoria -- in particular those documents that are
relevant to the historiographic study of linguistics and ethnology in
colonial times." Along these lines, the Centre has posted in its
edition and analysis section two texts concerning early African
testimonies about the arrivals of the first whites in the Belgian
Congo -- one of these is in French only -- the other, "We and the
Whites," is offered in both English and French. A collection of
African colonial school books is scheduled to be posted, and the site
has already offered scholarship based on this collection, namely two
essays: "Ideology in the Schoolbooks of the Belgian Congo" and "Race
and Racism in Schoolbooks of the Belgian Congo." The archives also
feature catalog descriptions of twelve collections of documents at
the Centre (all currently in French only). E-text versions of the
_Heart of Darkness_ and _Letters from the Cape_ by Lady Duff Gordon
are also posted in the Book Bank. Finally, a detailed, chronological
author and subject index of the journal _Annales Aequatoria_ is made
available as well as the table of contents to the journal's most
recent issue. It should be pointed out that we found the site
difficult to navigate and, as it stands, more promise than product
(especially if one doesn't read fluent French). However, what is
offered here, both in content and concept, gives a tantalizing sense
of the role the Web might play in the reversal of the relationship
between European historians, anthropologists, and local African
"subjects."

Kelly Writers House [RealPlayer]
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/

Affiliated with the English department at the University of
Pennsylvania, this Website offers an abundance of audio and video
Webcasts -- both live and archived -- of contemporary, avant-garde,
and experimental poets reading their own works and discussing the
works of other poets. The site also provides annotated links to
Websites of journals and e-journals devoted to the publication of
contemporary writers, and a calendar of programs at the Writers
House, including a schedule of upcoming live Webcasts. Most recently,
the Writers House made available the entire audio program of Nine
Poets Read Their Work through Modernism, a series of lectures held at
the House earlier this month by nine well-known experimental poets
discussing the modernists who most influenced them. The program
includes Bob Perelman on Louis Zukofsky, Ron Silliman on William
Carlos Williams, Joan Retallack on Gertrude Stein, Charles Bernstein
on Walter Benjamin, Rae Armantrout on Emily Dickinson, and more (go
to the calendar on the Website to access this link). In our opinion,
this is without a doubt the best single Website for acquainting
oneself with the personalities, ideas, words, precursors, and
proteges of postmodern experimental verse.

--from The Scout Report for Social Sciences -- October 31, 200
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