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African Literature in the World: A Teacher's Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Akin Adesokan
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IN Concluding the Editor's Foreword to the 1950 Edition of D. O. Fagunwa's First Novel, the Classic Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale, L. Murby spoke generally of the three novels the Yoruba author had published by then:

[I]n their treatment of character and story, in their use of myth and legend and allegory, and in their proverbial and epigrammatic language [the novels] bear definite resemblances to the Odyssey and Beowulf and the early medieval romances on the one hand, and on the other hand to that great cornerstone of the English novel, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

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the changing profession
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 5: Special Topic: Literature in the World , October 2016 , pp. 1462 - 1470
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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