The Primordial Image: African, Afro-American and Caribbean Mythopoetic Text

Ikenna Dieke

The Primordial Image: African, Afro-American and Caribbean Mythopoetic Text
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 March 1993
Pages
434
ISBN
9780820413204

The Primordial Image: African, Afro-American and Caribbean Mythopoetic Text

Ikenna Dieke

This fascinating book is an attempt to establish that in African, Afro-American and Caribbean literature certain primordial and mythic patterns recur sufficiently to be recognizable as familiar elements in our literary experience. Behind the pattern of each selected work, we recognize a more generalized pattern or archetype both in terms of narrative and thematic vision as well as imagery and characterization. Each chapter identifies and discusses an archetypal image in relationship to a specific work or set of works. From the female mythos to the archetype of eschatology, from the dionysian unconscious to the archetypal themes of identity and alienation and the sense of the fragmentation of the ego, the primordial images found in these works provide the vast common ground for the explorations of self or for bridging the distance between self and other, between the conscious and the unconscious layers of the human creative psyche.

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