SOURCE: "The Influence of Folklore Techniques on the Form of the African Novel," in New Literary History, Vol. 23, No. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 583-605.
In the following excerpt, Dseagu explores the influence of folklore on areas such as plot structure and characterization in a number of African novels, including Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
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