West African Literature at the Crossroads: the Magical Realism of Ben Okri
In traditional Yoruba mythology, crossroads, together with market places, are points of intersection allowing the coming together of different orders of being: the world of humans, spirits and ancestors, the living and the dead, the visible and the invisible. For Chinua Achebe, crossroads also cons...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | In traditional Yoruba mythology, crossroads, together with market places, are points of intersection allowing the coming together of different orders of being: the world of humans, spirits and ancestors, the living and the dead, the visible and the invisible. For Chinua Achebe, crossroads also constitute points of transition between time periods: ‘The members of my generation are living, you might say, at the crossroads of different eras. This is a very powerful place in African mythology’.F... |
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