February Folklore New Releases

A bunch of interesting titles are coming out this month - we should try for twenty-eight titles in twenty-eight days!

• Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: A Case Study in Local Folklore - David Waldron & Christopher Reeve. Amazon has no information on this title, but I doubt it was written by Superman.
• Narrative and Narrators: A Philosophy of Stories - Gregory Currie. Narrative study from a philosopher's point-of-view.
• A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature - edited by Shirley Chew and David Richards. Part of the series "Concise Companions to Literature and Culture."
• The Hausa of Nigeria - Frank Salamone.
• The Renaissance Literature Handbook - edited by Susan Bruce and Rebecca Steinberger. Part of the series "Literature and Culture Handbooks."
• Warlpiri Dreamings and History: Newly Recorded Stories from the Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia - Peggy Rockman Napaljarri and Lee Cataldi. Part of the "Sacred Literature Trust Series."
• The 1926 Miner's Lockout: Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield - Hester Barron. From "Oxford Historical Monographs."
• Sacred Play: Levity and Humor in South Asian Religions - edited by Selva J. Raj and Corinne G. Dempsey.
• Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology - Jennifer K. Stuller.
• Islam, Politics, Anthropology - edited by Filippo Osella and Benjamin Soares.
• The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, 30th Anniversary Edition - Michael Taussig.
• Komiks: Comic Art in Russia - Jose Alaniz. Oh yeah, right up my alley.
• Toying With God: The World of Religious Games and Dolls - Nikki Bado-Fralick and Rebecca Sachs Norris.