The poet as rainmaker: Fertility and pluvial aesthetics in Osundare’s The Eye of The Earth
In Niyi Osundare’s The Eye of the Earth, the poet functions as a primeval community’s shaman or rainmaker whose main duty is to ensure adequate rainfall whenever “the rains have kept their time” and drought persists beyond the vernal equinox. “Farmer-born” and “peasant-bred” in an agrarian communit...
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/2342 |