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The Wrath of the Ancestors
work by Jordan
Also known as: “Ingqumbo Yeminyanya”
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- In A.C. Jordan
His novel Ingqumbo yeminyanya (1940; The Wrath of the Ancestors) goes much beyond earlier Xhosa novels in its attempt to reveal the workings of a modern black African mind in its fight against conservative tribal forces. In developing his theme of the conflict between traditional and Western ways, Jordan denies…
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place in African literature
- In African literature: Xhosa
…novels, is Ingqumbo yeminyanya (1940; The Wrath of the Ancestors), written by A.C. Jordan. In this novel Jordan explores the central issue that concerned most of the writers who came before him—the relationship between African tradition and the intrusion of the West into African societies—and in the process he moves…
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