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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town
by Amos Tutuola
Born in 1929 in western Nigeria, Amos Tutuola achieved only a sixth-grade education due to financial ...
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Critical Essay by Paul Edwards
[The Palm-Wine Drinkard] is more commonly admired for its free-running fancy than for anything that could be called its structure, and apart from its archetypal form of ...
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Critical Essay by David Arnason
The Palm Wine Drinkard burst onto the world literary scene in 1952, and was an immediate and smashing success. This was balanced by Tutuola's cool reception by N...
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Critical Essay by Dylan Thomas
[The Palm-Wine Drinkard] is the brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching story, or series of stories, written in young English by a West African, about the journey of an e...
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Critical Essay by Charles R. Larson
Nothing he writes will probably ever satisfy Amos Tutuola's readers as much as his first novel, "The Palm-Wine Drinkard." At the time of its pu...
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Critical Essay by D.a.n. Jones
Anyone who enjoys Nigerian writing in English must salute Amos Tutuola, the man who made the breakthrough in 1952 with The Palm-Wine Drinkard. It is appropriate that the...
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads’ Town
Critical Essay by Paul Edwards
