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Myth, realism, and the West African writer

xv, 200 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index Myth and the contemporary West African writer -- Armah's mythic hero: a man betwixt and between -- The proverb, realism and Achebe: a study of ethical consciousness -- The riddle, myth and Tutuola: a study of mythic consciousness -- Kofi Awoonor's This earth, my brother as an African dirge -- The function of Yoruba cosmology in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Liminality and the priest-like role of the personae in Awoonor's and Soyinka's poetry? the poet as prophet -- The mythic dimension of Soyinka's The tri…