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The palm-wine drinkard and my life in the bush of ghosts by Amos Tutuola

The palm-wine drinkard and my life in the bush of ghosts Amos Tutuola ebook
Publisher: Grove press
ISBN: 0802133630, 9780802133632
Format: djvu
Page: 209

What will you most likely be reading next? I think “Palm Wine Drinkard” and “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” kick ass, but that dude's work has also been subjected to some of the most shameful exoticizing and outright condescension I've seen in the academy. Some while later, the publishing company Faber & Faber was dumbfounded to receive the manuscript of The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Tutuola's first novel, which was quite unlike any manuscript they'd ever seen before. The Palm Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola – very mythical and fairy tale-ish. That Yellow Bastard (Sin City, Book 4: Second Edition) by Frank Miller. When the material was recorded. And juju-man." Be it noted that this was not Tutuola's last novel; others include Feather Woman of the Jungle, The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town, and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, all of which are written in the same style. Tutuola, Amos, and Amos Tutuola. Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein. Both were familiar with Tutuola's earlier The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), but his My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was not easily obtained in the U.S.