Jan 4, 2010
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
At a glance:
- Author: Amos Tutuola
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological symbolism
- Time of Work: A melange of eras up to the 1950’s
- Setting: Nigeria
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Africa or Africans, Magic or magicians, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Religion, Ghosts or apparitions, Fear, Good and evil, Fantasy, Imagination, Hunger
- Locales: Nigeria
Characters Discussed
The narrator, a seven-year-old boy fleeing a slaver army. He takes
refuge in the bush near a fruit tree, thus inadvertently entering the Bush of Ghosts. Driven deeper
into this Otherworld by the sound of the slavers’ guns, he begins years of picaresque,
shape-shifting adventures involving bizarre “ghosts” that are nonhuman beings,
many of whom have magical attributes.
The Super Lady, a shape-shifter from Nameless-town, where only
women live. Her mother is the head of all earthly and ghostly witches, and her father is the head
of all wizards....
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