RECORD
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
- Title:
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard
- Author:
- Amos Tutuola
- Date of Publication:
- 1952
- Description:
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard 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 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 more than a dozen languages. (Source: Wikipedia)
- Wikidata Entity ID:
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q774053
- Open Library ID:
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6135103M
- Item Type:
- Text
- Item Image Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "The Palm-Wine Drinkard", Mapping Religion in the Global Anglophone Novel (MaRGAN), https://ghjensen.github.io/margan/items/margan038.html
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