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== Critical Reception == | == Critical Reception == | ||
Published by Faber and Faber | Published by Faber and Faber 1954, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" received and exceptionally warm reaction in London. | ||
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> | 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> | ||