My life in the Bush of Ghosts / by Amos Tutuola ; with a foreword by Geoffrey Parrinder, D.D., Ph.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tutuola, Amos, author.

Contributor:

Parrinder, Geoffrey, writer of foreword.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Evergreen book ; E-559.

"An Evergreen book ; E-559

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yoruba (African people)--Folklore--Fiction.

Yoruba (African people).

Yoruba (African people)--Folklore.

Folklore.

Nigeria.

Folklore--Nigeria--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

174 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Evergreen edition.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, Inc., 1970.

Contents:

The Meaning of "Bad" and "Good"

In the Bush of Ghosts

The Smelling-Ghost

My Life in the 7th Town of Ghosts

My Life with Cows

A Cola Saved Me

At a Ghost Mother's Birthday Function

My First Wedding Day in the Bush of Ghosts

On my Way to the 9th Town of Ghosts

River-Ghosts. Gala-day under the River

In the 20th Town of Ghosts

In the Spider's Web Bush

The Short Ghosts and their Flash-eyed Mother

Barbing Day in the Town of Short Ghosts

I become an Aggressor for Ghosts

The Super Lady

In the Nameless-town

Where Woman Marries Woman

Hopeless-town

On the Queer Way to Homeward

Lost or Gain Valley

Son Divides Us

I meet my Dead Cousin in the 10th Town of Ghosts

Invisible Magnetic Missive sent to Me from Home

Bad-bye Function

Television-handed Ghostess

Hard to say "No" and Hard to say "Yes"

The Future-Sign Tree

Gladness becomes Weeping.

Notes:

"The book has been edited by remove the grosser mistakes, clear up some ambiguities, and curtail some repetition. But the original flavour of the style has been left to produce its own effect."--Foreword.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "Second Printing".

ISBN:

0802131050

9780802131058

0394173244

9780394173245

OCLC:

279903