Myth, Literature and the African World (Canto) Laura Overdeck The author of two of

The author of two of the greatest works of religious literature

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Myth, Literature and the African World (Canto) Laura Overdeck The author of two ofWole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural entity, and the differences between its essential unity of experience and literary form and the sense of division pervading Western literature, are just some of the issues addressed. The centrality of