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Myth and Literature in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Louis-Marie Ongoum
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Extract

Myth is like religion: both present one and the same fundamental problem—that of the whole of existence.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 20 , Issue 80 , December 1972 , pp. 51 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © 1972 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 Gusdorf, G., Mythe et Métaphysique, Paris: Flammarion, 1953, p. 223.

2 Senghor, L.-S. Chants d'ombre: "Que m'accompagnent koras et balafon, IX," in Poèmes. Paris, Éd. du Seuil, 1964.

3 Baudelaire C., The Flowers of Evil, "Bile and the Ideal: IV Corre spondences," trans. R. Wilbur, New York, New Directions, 1955.

4 Eliade M., Aspects du Mythe, Paris, Gallimard, 1963, p. 175.

5 Goetz, Le péché, quoted by Henri Maurier, in Essai d'une Théologie du paganisme, Ed. De l'Orante, 1965, p. 63.

6 Gusdorf, Georges, op. cit., p. 17.

7 Ibid., p. 13.

8 Ibid., p. 14.

9 Colin, R., Littérature africaine d'hier et de demain, Paris: A.D.E.C., 1963, p. 56.

10 Durand G., Structures Anthropologiques et l'Imaginaire, Paris: P.U.F., p. 391 ff.

11 Ibid., p. 215.

12 Ibid., p. 221.

13 Cf. Parrinder, Edward Goeffrey, African Mythology, London, Hamlyn, 1967, p. 20; cf. also Eliade, Mircea, Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, trans. Philip Mairet, London, Harvill, 1960, p. 35.

14 Eliade, Mircea, Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, p. 35. Cf. also Gusdorf, op. cit.

15 Gusdorf, G. op. cit., p. 16.

16 Durand, G., op. cit., pp. 452-456.