The Palm-Wine Drinkard

The Palm-Wine Drinkard: And His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town

53 pages1-hour read

Fiction

Novel

Adult

Published in 1952

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Plot Summary
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Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapters 1-11
Chapters 12-21
Chapters 22-29
Chapter 30-Afterword
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Themes
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Essay Topics

How does the Drinkard’s boastful first-person narration shape the reader’s experience of the fantastical world?

The narrative frequently employs similes drawn from modern technology. How does Tutuola’s use of this anachronistic literary devices shape the novel’s tone and its blending of worlds?

How does the Drinkard’s addiction-fueled quest subvert traditional heroic epic conventions?