Otherworlds, doubles, houses : Helen Oyeyemi's The Opposite House and White Is for Witching
Houses feature prominently in Helen Oyeyemi's novels, The Opposite House and White Is for Witching. I describe the connection between the Greco-Roman Underworld and the Yorùbá Otherworld in Oyeyemi's texts as a "liminal intersection", one in which Gothic and supernatural metaph...
Main Author: | Anita Harris Satkunananthan (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,
2018-11.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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