The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola. The first African novel published in English outside of Africa, this quest tale based on Yoruba folktales is written in a modified Yoruba English or Pidgin English. In it, a man follows his brewer into the land of the dead, encountering many spirits and adventures. The novel has always been controversial, inspiring both admiration and contempt among Western and Nigerian critics, but has emerged as one of the most important texts in the African literary canon, translated into over a dozen languages.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola. The first African novel published in English outside of Africa, this quest tale based on Yoruba folktales is written in a modified Yoruba English or Pidgin English. In it, a man follows his brewer into the land of the dead, encountering many spirits and adventures. The novel has always been controversial, inspiring both admiration and contempt among Western and Nigerian critics, but has emerged as one of the most important texts in the African literary canon, translated into over a dozen languages.
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Der Palmweintrinker, Originalt ...... t bei Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart).
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Il bevitore di vino di palma ( ...... ica al consumismo occidentale.
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L'Ivrogne dans la brousse est ...... ntainement des contes yorubas.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtit ...... d into over a dozen languages.
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Der Palmweintrinker, Originalt ...... t bei Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart).
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Il bevitore di vino di palma ( ...... o del pidgin english africano.
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L'Ivrogne dans la brousse est ...... ntainement des contes yorubas.
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtit ...... d into over a dozen languages.
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Der Palmweintrinker
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Il bevitore di vino di palma
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L'Ivrogne dans la brousse
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
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