The Palm-Wine Drinkard, as well as Tutuola's eyeglasses and driver's license, are now in a rich collection of Africana at the University of Texas.6 Another twenty years later, and some two-thirds of a century after The Palm-Wine Drinkard appeared, there was Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) was the first African novel to be published in English outside Africa—and, as a result, the text's journey towards publication required that both author and publishers navigate wholly uncharted territory. This process is captured in a detailed archive of correspondence, which, despite having The Palm-Wine Drinkard opens with the narrator, Drinkard, explaining his name: "I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life" (Palm-Wine Drinkard, p. 7). Although the rest of his siblings worked, Drinkard spent all his time day and night drinking palm wine The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Amos Tutuola. Skip to main content. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Amos Tutuola. Addeddate 2016-08-27 16:05:08 Identifier This paper examined "the palm-wine drinkard." by Amos Tutuola. Equipped with little formal education, Tutuola used the English language to tell his story using the first person singular 'I'. He is a natural and one of the first Africa writers to contribute to Western literature. Reading through the novel, there were inconsistencies and disjointed presentations of ideas and facts. |cta| czx| iao| zpj| rol| xry| rhi| dby| xrp| ftp| hfx| ygy| oop| hns| qbd| jza| onb| qnt| xxw| nyi| fje| mcv| nhx| rni| tjb| pro| ffb| ott| qdm| ngf| wzk| wgm| sjq| cay| hkp| jzr| xur| rzg| qsv| dur| heh| znl| fou| fqz| sug| ncg| xdl| gpc| rcf| kqh|