Dog sacrifice in Isidore Okpewho�s call me by my rightful name and the Works of Wole Soyinka: Ogun, race, identity and diaspora

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dc.contributor.authorMoolla, Fiona. F
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-28T07:28:17Z
dc.date.available2022-01-28T07:28:17Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis essay considers the ways in which the significance of blood sacrifice in the propitiation of the Yoruba god Ogun is transformed in the context of international literature which asserts an endogenous African modernity, and the specificity of black experience and identity. It focuses mainly on Isidore Okpewho�s 2004 novel, Call Me By My Rightful Name, compared with the role of Ogun in Wole Soyinka�s aesthetics, foregrounding key essays, drama and poetry. Okpewho�s novel presents the reality of the ancestral call among the Yoruba of the American and Caribbean diaspora, which synecdochically represents the call of an essentialized Africa. The central character, Otis Hampton, is a middle class basketball playing African- American college student who inexplicably begins to respond in uncontrollable ways to African drumming and involuntarily chants in a language he does not understand.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMoolla, F. F. (2016). Dog sacrifice in Isidore Okpewho�s call me by my rightful name and the Works of Wole Soyinka: Ogun, race, identity and diaspora. Global colloquies : an international journal of world literature & cultures, 2(1).en_US
dc.identifier.issn2454-2423
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/7137
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRanchi: Glocal Colloquiesen_US
dc.subjectDog sacrificeen_US
dc.subjectAfrican diasporaen_US
dc.subjectYoruba cultureen_US
dc.subjectOral traditionen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.titleDog sacrifice in Isidore Okpewho�s call me by my rightful name and the Works of Wole Soyinka: Ogun, race, identity and diasporaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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