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This Earth, My Brother:

An Allegorical Tale of Africa
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Doubleday, 1971 - Africa - 232 pages
An experimental novel which the author has described as a "prose poem." In it, Awoonor tells a story on two levels, each representing a distinct reality. The first level is a standard narrative which details a day in the life an attorney named Amamu. On another level, it is a symbol-laden mystical journey filled with biblical and literary allusions. These portions of the text deal with the new nation of Ghana, which is represented by a baby on a dunghill. The dunghill is a source of both rot and renewal, and in this way represents the foundations upon which Ghana was built, according to Awoonor.

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Contents

Section 1
9
Section 2
17
Section 3
21
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This earth, my brother: an allegorical tale of Africa
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Kofi Awoonor
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Abotsi Accra Adisa African Allah Amamu asked beat blood boys brother Burma Cape Coast cassava caught church cloth club Dahomey dance dark dead death Deme District Commissioner drink drove drums dunghill Dunyo earth elders Empire Days estate house eyes face father feet gate gently girl glass Gold Coast hands harmattan head heard hymn Indian almond knew Kodzo Kumasi land lawyer lived Lome look Lord masa Mawu morning mother mouth never night night soil Nima palm palm wine Paul police rain river road Sammy Sasieme screaming Seidu Sekondi shirt silent singing sleep slowly smell smile song staring stood stool sweat Takoradi talk tall tears took town tree truck turned round village voice walked woman women Yaro Yes sah

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Modern Black African Writing in English: A Selected Bibliography
GD Killam - 1975 - Canadian Journal of African Studies

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Awoonor
The first, This Earth, My Brother... (1971) is an experimental novel which he describes as a "prose poem." In it, Awoonor tells a story on two levels, ...
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The Butterfly and the Pile of Manure: A Study of Kofi Awoonor's ...
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Chapter 8
Lawyer Amamu (in This Earth, My Brother ...) is one of those figures who carry .... Awoonor, This Earth, My Brother ... . The phrase appears first on p.29. ...
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The Futility of Individual Aspiration In The African Novel
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DEMO-DICTATORS In Africa
Ghanaian novelist and poet Kofi Awoonor has fictionalized the Question of Power in Africa in his novel titled This Earth My Brother (1972). ...
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When Kofi Awoonor titled one of his numerous African Writer Series novels as This Earth My Brother, the thematic focus of the book is on the challenges that ...
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West Africa: Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone -- Nwoga 7 (2 ...
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GENDERED FAMILY DYNAMICS AND HEALTH
In Awoonor’s This Earth My Brother Amamu is. destroyed by being torn apart, trapped in a modern marriage, whereas all his other values cleave to ...
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TitleThis Earth, My Brother: An Allegorical Tale of Africa
Volume 108 of African writers series
Volume 772 of Anchor books
AuthorKofi Awoonor
PublisherDoubleday, 1971
Length232 pages
  
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