This Earth, My Brother is a 1971 novel by Ghanaian novelist Kofi Awoonor published, later republished by Heinemann as part of the influential African Writers Series.[1]
Development and contextedit
Awoonor started writing the novel in 1963—and it was a "straightforward narrative" which Awoonor compared to works by Conrad and Joyce.[2] Subsequently, Awoonor wrote other sections: original
printing of the novel included two types of printed material: the narrative section, and other sections written after the initial draft.The intermixed narrative strategies radically changed assumptions about what African novels should include.
In Ghana, this novel echoes many of the obsessive of the author's poems. The story describes the pain of Awoonor's voluntary exile and his spiritual return to his native land.[3]
Academic Kwame Ayivor describes the novel as a fictional representation of the mythology and worldview of the Ewe people.[4] Ayivor describes the style of using this material, as very similar to Ayi Kwei Armah's The Healers (1979).[4]
Critical receptionedit
In an obituary for Awoonor, Ghanaian-British writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes called the novel "wonderfully musical prose, its immersion in Accra's history, its obvious confidence in its place in the world, made me go to my father and ask about the otheruncle."[5]
Referencesedit
^"Kofi Awoonor: This Earth My Brother - Vanguard News". Vanguard News. 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
^ abDuclos, Jocelyn-Robert (1975-01-01). ""The Butterfly and the Pile of Manure": A Study of Kofi Awoonor's Novel, This Earth, My Brother". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 9 (3): 511–521. doi:10.2307/484138. JSTOR 484138.
^"This Earth, My Brother". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
^ abAyivor, Kwame (1999). "The Prodigal Hero Returns to his Aboriginal Home: A Reading of Kofi Awoonor's This Earth, My Brother" (PDF). Alternation. 6 (2).
^Parkes, Nii (2013-09-28). "My hero: Kofi Awoonor by Nii Parkes". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
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