Le pouvoir surnaturel dans la dramaturgie postcoloniale L’exemple de La Tignasse et La Termitière
Supernatural Power in the Postcolonial Dramaturgy. The Example of La Tignasse and La Termitière

Author(s): Fétigué Coulibaly
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: African religion; traditional beliefs; African cosmogony; initiation trail; occult forces; supernatural dimension;
Summary/Abstract: The many African religious beliefs can be summed up as animism, which is ancestral religion. This ancestral religion contains great secrets also called supernatural powers which are energies, occult forces, immeasurable powers. In Africa, the holders of these mystical powers are referred to by various names, including Devins, Healers, Wizards, Seers, Marabouts, Witches. They are, in African societies, the object of great covetousness by their capacity of intervention in all spheres of social life, including politics and theater.

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