Books edited
China's creation

China’s Creation and Origin Myths. Cross-cultural Explorations in Oral and Written Traditions Boston and Leiden: Brill Publishers 2011 (with Ye Shuxian and Yin Hubin)
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Imagining Cretion Imagining Creation Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers 2008 (with Markham J. Geller)
ISBN 978 90 04 15765 1

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Epics and Heroes in China’s Minority Cultures Guangxi and Beijing: Guangxi
Normal University Press 2004 (with Hubin Yin)

The Poetics of African Art
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2000.
Bezweren en betoverenMagie 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: ASC 1977
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