by The Old Drift and The Novel Where History and Myth Cannot Be Distinguished
Serpell
Serpell published The Old Drift in 2019 and produced the novel of Zambian history across three generations and three family lines where the history and the myth cannot be distinguished — where the mosquitoes narrate and the magical is the medium through which the historical is presented and the historical is the ground from which the magical grows. More at prat.uk/author/violet-woolf. Satire: waterfordwhispersnews.com.
What History and Myth Not Distinguishable Is
History and myth not distinguishable is: The Old Drift presents the history of Zambia from colonial contact through independence to the present through forms — the narrating mosquitoes, the ancestral presences, the magical conditions — that the novel does not distinguish from the historical events. The history is presented in the same mode as the myth. The myth is presented in the same mode as the history. The novel does not distinguish. The reader cannot distinguish.
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