A spirit of dialogue; incarnations of Ogbanje, the born-to-die, in African American fiction.9781572336155 A spirit of dialogue; incarnations of Ogbanje Ogbanje is an Igbo (or Ibo) religious term. Its literal translation is "children who come and go". Traditional Igbo religion defines ogbanje as the spirits of children who were stillborn or died young. , the born-to-die, in African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. fiction. Okonkwo Okonkwo is the protagonist in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and represents the rash, strong warrior who acts upon impulse. Character info Okonkwo, the son of the effeminate and lazy Unoka, strives to make his way in a world that seems to value manliness. , Christopher N. U. of Tennessee Tennessee, state, United States Tennessee (tĕn`əsē', tĕn'əsē`), state in the south-central United States. Press 2008 266 pages $48.00 Hardcover PS153 The Igbo Ogbanje and Yoruba abiku are related traditional African images of part-human part-spirit children, who go through repeated births and deaths to the same mother. Nigerian native Okonkwo (English, U. of Missouri-Columbia) explores how African American writers have appropriated the image. Among the works he looks at are Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, The Between, The Cattle Killing, and Beloved. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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