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| Title: | THE SUPERNATURAL IN AMOS TUTUOLA’S THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD AND MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS |
| Authors: | ADESUYI, ADEFOLARIN OLUWASOORE
OLUFUNWA, H.O |
| Keywords: | SUPERNATURAL
DRINKARD
PALM-WINE
LIFE
BUSH
GHOSTS |
| Issue Date: | 12-Nov-2018 |
| Publisher: | FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OYE EKITI |
| Citation: | Abanuka, B. Myth and the African Universe.Onitsha: Spiritan Publications, 1999. |
| Series/Report no.: | ENG/14/1950; |
| Abstract: | This research x-rays the existence of the supernatural and its role in reality which has become a pre-dominant factor that has gained prominence and importance from time immemorial, and how writers have tried to project this concept in their literary engagements. In an attempt to establish this argument, the researcher explored Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. These novels depict and explore the idea of the supernatural in various manifestations and they are rich in the supernatural and are rooted in the mythology and
traditional African belief of supernaturalism. Supernaturalism is the belief that there are beings, forces, and phenomena such as God, angels or miracles which interact with the physical universe
in remarkable and unique ways. This research is aimed at re-emphasizing the concept of the supernatural which has become an inseparable part of most of the works written by Africans, and
bring to limelight the relationship it has with the human world and how both have exerted their influence on each other. |
| Description: | The concept of the supernatural is one of the key themes in African literature. African literature is “any literary work composed by an African having African experiences, elements, characters, attitudes, and settings” (Brown n.pag.).Before the advent or introduction of colonial literacy to the African continent, literature existed mainly in oral form which validates the
autonomy of African literature and although the colonial situation imposes constraints on the African novel, it is essentially a hybrid out of the African oral tradition whose primary constituents is different from that of the European and other regional novel. |
| URI: | http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1484 |
| ISSN: | ENG/14/1950 |
| Appears in Collections: | Department of English and Literary Studies Thesis
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