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Ritual Murder and Witchcraft in Southern Africa in relation to Unity Dow's "The Screaming of the Innocent"

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Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.7, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: In 2002, Unity Dow's book The Screaming of the Innocent was published. It deals with the topic of ritual murder in Botswana and gives detailed descriptions of the South African belief in witchcraft, traditional healing and ritual murder. Since the book is not based on a true story it is interesting to find out whether the themes Dow writes about are fictitious as well or if they can be related to Botswana's every-day life. In an interview Unity Dow claims that ritual murder actually still happens in Southern Africa.This essay will have a closer look on some relevant passages of the book The Screaming of the Innocent and will relate them to the religion, the witchcraft belief, the belief in witchdoctors and the topic of ritual murder in Botswana. A comparison will showwhether there are parallels between the fictitious story of the book and the real life in this specific area of Southern Africa.

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Authors Jessica Narloch
Publisher Grin Verlag
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.03.2012
 
EAN 9783656994046
ISBN 978-3-656-99404-6
No. of pages 44
Dimensions 148 mm x 6 mm x 6 mm
Weight 79 g
Series Akademische Schriftenreihe
Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V186365
Akademische Schriftenreihe
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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