Otherworlds, doubles, houses : Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House and White Is for Witching

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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 metaphors from the Yorùbá...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anita Harris Satkunananthan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/17667/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/17667/1/26786-89234-1-PB.pdf

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