The re-issue of archival volumes ALT 1 to ALT 14 makes the complete
series available and provides the historical perspective of these
early contributions to the literature and its criticism. This
volume, first published in 1980, provides an overview of the way
myth and history have influenced both the literature of Africa and
individual writers. Isidore Okpewho, Solomon O. Iyasere and Mazisi
Kunene contribute here onmyth, oral tradition and African
cosmological systems. Armah's vision of history is examined both in
the way that it appears in his novels and in comparison with
Ouologuem and Soyinka; also examined are Elechi Amadi's view of
thegods, Achebe's use of myth in Arrow of God and the inward
journey of Tutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard. There are views across the
Atlantic of the way the Middle Passage resonates in the work of
Edouard Glissant and in the work of a number of writers from West
Africa.
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