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Article: An abiku-ogbanje Atlas: a pre-text for rereading Soyinka's Ake and Morrison's Beloved.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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The idea of reincarnation is not alien or foreign....The resurgence of spirits and the ability to be possessed by another spirit...is not outrageous in the early days of the culture as it survived in this country, and it still exists in lots of places in Africa....In this milieu, with a slave population, 1853, through the post-civil war period, 1873, [reincarnation] will be very much within the realm of possibility...(Beloved's] language is the language of someone who has been returned from the other side. (Toni Morrison, Bragg interview)
In her revealing statement to Melvyn Bragg, echoing age-old West African social memory, Toni Morrison revisits reincarnation. ...