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Myth, Literature and the African World

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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Caribbean and African Literature and Culture African cultural and philosophical studies

Abstract

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.

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