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== Critical Reception == | == Critical Reception == | ||
Published by Faber and Faber 1954, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" received and exceptionally warm reaction in London. | Published by Faber and Faber 1954, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" received and exceptionally warm reaction in London. Kingsley Amis wrote in ''The Spectator'' that "t''here is no doubt of the size of Mr. Tutuola's talent, which makes the average 'modern novel' look jejune and vapid.''"<ref>Amis, Kingsley. “New Novels.” ''The Spectator'', 26 Feb. 1954, archive.spectator.co.uk/article/26th-february-1954/26/-new-novels. Accessed 27 June 2024.</ref> | ||
In 2020, Elijah Wolfson writing for Time Magazine said that in the novel Tutuola "''recontextualiz[ed] previously unrecorded west African mythology by imbuing it with symbols of what was at the time a new global modernity. Consider, for example, one of the key figures of the novel: the “television-handed ghostess,” [...] opening her hands and revealing TV screens on her palms showing footage of the narrator’s family and home village.''"<ref name=":0">Wolfson, Elijah. ““My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” Is on TIME’s List of the 100 Best Fantasy Books.” ''Time'', 15 Oct. 2020, time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898437/my-life-in-the-bush-of-ghosts/. Accessed 27 June 2024.</ref> | In 2020, Elijah Wolfson writing for Time Magazine said that in the novel Tutuola "''recontextualiz[ed] previously unrecorded west African mythology by imbuing it with symbols of what was at the time a new global modernity. Consider, for example, one of the key figures of the novel: the “television-handed ghostess,” [...] opening her hands and revealing TV screens on her palms showing footage of the narrator’s family and home village.''"<ref name=":0">Wolfson, Elijah. ““My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” Is on TIME’s List of the 100 Best Fantasy Books.” ''Time'', 15 Oct. 2020, time.com/collection/100-best-fantasy-books/5898437/my-life-in-the-bush-of-ghosts/. Accessed 27 June 2024.</ref> | ||