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“In the name of the Son”: Fatherhood’s Critical Legitimacy, Sonhood and Masculinities in Chris Abani’s Graceland and The Virgin of Flames
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Fatherhood and Critical Legitimacy:
In his extremity many a man sent his son with a yam or two to offer to the new religion and to bring back the promised immunity. Thereafter any yam harvested in his fields was harvested in the name of the son.
(Achebe 1964, 230)
In his extremity many a man sent his son with a yam or two to offer to the new religion and to bring back the promised immunity. Thereafter any yam harvested in his fields was harvested in the name of the son.
(Achebe 1964, 230)