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The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural whole that interconnects myth, ritual and literature and the differences between its essential unity and the sense of division pervading Western literature are emphasized in this classic analysis. -- Book Description
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I shall begin by commemorating the gods for their self-sacrifice on the altar of literature, and in so doing press them into further service on behalf of human society, and its quest for the explication of being. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Camara Laye, Hamidou Kane, Zora Zeljan, Tierno Bokar, Two Thousand Seasons, Duro Ladipo, Oba Koso, Samba Diallo, South African, The Imprisonment, William Conton, Ayi Kwei Armah, The Radiance of the King, Yambo Oulouguem, Ambiguous Adventure, Mongo Beti, Nana Buruku New!
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I shall begin by commemorating the gods for their self-sacrifice on the altar of literature, and in so doing press them into further service on behalf of human society, and its quest for the explication of being. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transitional gulf, tragic rites, chthonic realm, literary ideology, ritual theatre, tragic art, social vision Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Camara Laye, Hamidou Kane, Zora Zeljan, Tierno Bokar, Two Thousand Seasons, Duro Ladipo, Oba Koso, Samba Diallo, South African, The Imprisonment, William Conton, Ayi Kwei Armah, The Radiance of the King, Yambo Oulouguem, Ambiguous Adventure, Mongo Beti, Nana Buruku New!
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- Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah on 5 pages
- Ambiguous Adventure (African Writers Series, 119) by Cheikh Hamidou Kane on page 79, and page 85
- Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis (Routledge Classics) by C. G. Jung on page 10, and page 35
- The Radiance of the King (New York Review Books Classics) by Camara Laye on page 123, and page 125
- King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 14
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- Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature) by Biodun Jeyifo on 17 pages
- Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity by Biodun Jeyifo on 12 pages
- LA Route: Realite Et Representation Dans L'Oeuvre De Wole Soyinka (Cross/Cultures) (Cross/Cultures) by Christiane Fioupou on 7 pages
- Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri by Ato Quayson on 6 pages
- African Identities: Race, Nation and Culture in Ethnography, Pan-Africanism and Black Literatures by Kadiatu Kanneh on 5 pages
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