Books Edited
Imagining Creation. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers 2008 (with Markham J. Geller)
Epics and Heroes in China’s Minority Cultures'. Guangxi and Beijing: Guangxi Normal University Press 2004 (with Hubin Yin)
The Poetics of African Art, Special issue of Research in African Literatures. Vol. 31, no. 4, winter 2000, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Bezweren en betoveren. Magie en literatuur wereldwijd. Amsterdam: Ambo 1995 (with P.H. Schrijvers)
Mijn naam is haas. Dierenverhalen in verschillende culturen. Amsterdam: Ambo 1993 (with W.L. Idema and P.H. Schrijvers)
Ik is anders. Autobiografie in verschillende culturen. Amsterdam: Ambo 1992 (with Peter Schmitz)
Onsterfelijke roem. Het epos in verschillende culturen. Amsterdam: Ambo 1989
Unheard Words. Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America. London: Allison & Busby/New York: Schocken Books 1985
Het zwarte paradijs. Afrikaanse scheppingsmythen (collected and translated creation and origin myths from Africa). Maasbree: Corrie Zelen 1980 New edition: Rijswijk, Elmar, 1999.
De tovertam en andere verhalen uit Zaïre (collected and translated Congolese stories.) Maasbree: Corrie Zelen 1979
Text and Context in Africa. Methodological Explorations in the Field of African Literature. Leiden: Afrika-Studiecentrum 1977
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