Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri

Abstract

African literature and the question of orality nutritive junctures - Rev Samuel Johnson and Yoruba Historiography treasure of an opulent fancy - Amos Tutuola and the folktale narrative the space of transformations - theory, myth and ritual in the work of Wole Soyinka narrative through a prism of indigenous beliefs - examples from Ben Okri's short stories harvesting the folkloric intuition - The Famished Road.

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