Alan James

Alan James is an evangelical Christian who has a background in literary and legal writing. He has brought to these readings an enthusiasm for scrupulous research and evangelical thinking, and for precise language, direct talking, and aesthetic initiative. His principal publication to date has been a literary-cum-scholarly re-presentation, with annotation, of selected pieces of the 19th-century-documented oral literature of the /Xam San (Bushmen) of South Africa: "The First Bushman's path -...See more

Alan James is an evangelical Christian who has a background in literary and legal writing. He has brought to these readings an enthusiasm for scrupulous research and evangelical thinking, and for precise language, direct talking, and aesthetic initiative. His principal publication to date has been a literary-cum-scholarly re-presentation, with annotation, of selected pieces of the 19th-century-documented oral literature of the /Xam San (Bushmen) of South Africa: "The First Bushman's path - stories, songs and testimonies of the /Xam of the northern Cape" (University of Natal Press, 2001). See less