The Signification of African Spirituality in Selected Short Stories of Tanure Ojaide
African writers’ cultural settings are often reflected in their artistic creations. In his writings, Tanure Ojaide constantly re-affirms his identification with, and indebtedness to, his Urhobo traditional heritage. The short story seems to afford him the opportunity to interrogate the visible (p...
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Editura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Arad
2021
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| Résumé: | African writers’ cultural settings are often reflected in their artistic
creations. In his writings, Tanure Ojaide constantly re-affirms his identification
with, and indebtedness to, his Urhobo traditional heritage. The short story seems
to afford him the opportunity to interrogate the visible (physical) and invisible
(spiritual) in the lives of his people which he reflects through his fictional
characters. This paper therefore, adopts a pragmatic approach as it examines
Ojaide’s preoccupation with the place, representation, and implications of
spirituality through some stories selected from his four collections of short
fiction. The writer projects ideas around African spirituality mainly through the
relationship between the living and the dead, the importance of the final resting
place for the dead, the existence and operations of supernatural forces capable of
oppressive and sexual attacks, and the efficacy of bewitchment on the living.
This study will assist in exploring the continued spirituality of Africans as
expressed through Christian beliefs and traditional mysticism. |
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