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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Autor principal:	Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega
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Publicado:	Editura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Arad 2021
Materias:	african spirituality mysticism signification tanure ojaide Language and Literature P Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:21cfcf8d8f3c4357a8c053c3b6b4972c2021-11-29T08:34:52ZThe Signification of African Spirituality in Selected Short Stories of Tanure Ojaide2067-65572247-2371https://doaj.org/article/21cfcf8d8f3c4357a8c053c3b6b4972c2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.jhss.ro/downloads/24/articles/vol%2012%20no%202%20(24)%202021-45-58.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2067-6557https://doaj.org/toc/2247-2371African 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.Enajite Eseoghene OjaruegaEditura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Aradarticleafrican spiritualitymysticismsignificationtanure ojaideLanguage and LiteraturePPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091DEENESFRROJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, Vol XII, Iss 2, Pp 45-58 (2021)
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description	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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The Signification of African Spirituality in Selected Short Stories of Tanure Ojaide

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