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| Title: | AFRICAN LITERATURE AND MAGICAL REALISM: DECONSTRUCTING LIMINALITY MODEL IN AMOS TUTUOLA’S PALMWINE DRINKDARD AND BEN OKIRI’S THE FAMISHED ROAD |
| Authors: | OGUNGBEMI, AYOBAMI EBUNOLUWA
DR.EMMANUEL ADENIYI, DR.EMMANUEL |
| Keywords: | AFRICAN LITERATURE
THE FAMISHED ROAD
AMOS TUTUOLA’S PALMWINE DRINKDARD AND BEN OKIRI’S
MAGICAL REALISM: |
| Issue Date: | Nov-2018 |
| Publisher: | FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, OYE-EKITI |
| Citation: | Amos Tutuola; The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead palm-Wine. London: Faber. (1952). |
| Series/Report no.: | DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES;ENG/14/1986 |
| Abstract: | This study is set out to deconstruct the liminality model in Ben Okiri’s Famished Road and Amos Tutuola’s Palmwine Drinkard. The purpose is to make people aware of the liminal spaces that exist in the world. The Magical Realism theory is adopted for the analysis of this study. The result is that there are liminal space, which involves an interface between visible and invisible world while portraying the liminal characters and location, which centres on magic realism as propounded by Garcia Marquez |
| Description: | African literature is a corpus of literary activities that celebrate, condemn, criticize or record various happenings on the continent. It is a unique literature borne out of colonial experience and the quest of African writers to reject negative stereotypes used against Africa and its people by racist European anthropologists. As a result of their racist disposition, the European anthropology had inadequate perception about African literature and termed it “premature” “”primitive” and ”preliterate”, because they had been using Western principles to new read it |
| URI: | http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1472 |
| ISSN: | ENG/14/1986 |
| Appears in Collections: | Department of English and Literary Studies Thesis
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