The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Amos Tutuola
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Folklore
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Setting: Nigeria
- Genres: Long fiction, Folklore
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Mythology or myths, Marriage, Death or dying, Disasters, Natural disasters, Monsters, Nigeria or Nigerians, Famines
- Locales: Nigeria
Characters Discussed
The narrator, the palm-wine “drinkard” of the title, who cannot imagine life without a steady supply of palm-wine. After his palm-wine tapster falls from a palm and is killed, he takes his dead father’s jujus (magical implements) and sets out to find the tapster in the town of the dead. One of his first adventures is the rescue of a young woman from a bush creature who has lured her into captivity. He marries her and with her traverses a variety of dangerous areas in the bush, sometimes using his jujus to change his wife into a wooden doll that he...
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