UNDERSTANDING METAPHYSICAL MYTHS THROUGH CAMARA LAYE’S NOVELS
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2019-10-22
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Department of French, Nasarawa State University Keffi
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This paper is an attempt to explain the meaning of metaphysical myths through the novels of Camara Laye. It enumerates the four forms which myths may take. It also relies on the concept of indexical signs as explained by Peirce (1998) in order to establish the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. The paper finds out that objects could be deified to have metaphysical power in black Africa. The paper later concludes that every deified object operates above'those who deified them and that in black Africa the art of deifying object is mainly carried out by the elders.
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signification, signified, signifier, literary signs and metaphysical
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Adeagbo, T. J. (2014) ‘Une etude s£miotique des romans de Camara Laye’. An Unpublished Ph. D Thesis Submitted to the Department of French, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin Adeagbo, T. J. (2015) ‘Literature and Myth : Camara Laye’s Example’ in Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences April 2(2) pp. 9-16 retrived from http://apieasrapimr.com/current/issues. Chandler, Daniel (2002). Semiotics. The Basis, London: Routledge Culler Jonathan (2002). The Pursuit of Signs, London: Routledge Laye, Camara (1953). Uenfant noir, Paris: Librairie Plon Laye, Camara (1954). Le rgard du roi, Paris: Librairie Plon Laye, Camara (1966). Dramouss, Paris: Librairie Plon Mbonu, C. M. (2010) Handmaid: The Power of Names in Theology and Society.U. S. A.:Wipf and Stock Publishers Magoulick Mary. What fc Myth? Retrieved from http://www.facultv.de.gasu.edu/-mmagouli/defmyth.html consulted on 17th September, 2014