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The epigraph from Franco Moretti articulates a central problem of literary criticism: how to be historical while paying attention to the specific details of literary discourse.
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literary strategic formation, animist realism, folkloric intuition, transitional abyss, sacrificial carrier, tragic agency, heroic vocation, ijálá chants, titanic stature, famished road, liminal boundaries, temporal indices, esoteric realm, strong breed, oral narrators, purificatory rituals, indigenous resources, spirit companions, ritual suicide, oral genres, complete gentleman
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Madame Koto, Black Tyger, Samuel Johnson, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, The Strong Breed, Abiola Irele, Amos Tutuola, Karin Barber, West African, Johnson's History, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Van Gennep, Harry Garuba, Party of the Rich, The Wild Hunter, Yellow Jaguar, Adeboye Babalola, African Literatures, Gerald Moore, Green Leopard, Olusegun Oladipo, Oxford University Press, Victor Turner
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