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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=741 Lewis, Sinclair. The God Seeker. 1949.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1613 Lewis, Wyndham. The Apes of God. 1930.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3156 Mapanje, Jack. Of Chameleons and Gods. 1981.
Jack Mapanje's first collection of poems, Of Chameleons and Gods made a very particular impact in Malawi after its publication in 1981 because the Censorship Board recognised its implicit criticism of the autocratic regime of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, and subsequently withdrew the book from circulation, despite its international reputation. The notoriety of the poems' political gesture has often deflected from the skill and beauty of the poems as they transform elements of Malawian oral culture into syncretic literary forms. Mapanje makes particular use of the praise verse form in making ironic, understated and satiric commentary on the political situation and its supporters. This rhythmic speaking voice is apparent in the poem “When This Carnival Finally Closes”: When this frothful carnival finally closes, brother When your drumming veins dry, these very officers Will burn the scripts of the praises we sang to you And shatter the calabashes
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4941 Heller, Joseph. God Knows. 1984.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4953 Malamud, Bernard. God's Grace. 1982.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5966 Graves, Robert. Claudius the God. 1935.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6042 McCarthy, Cormac. Child of God. 1974.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6498 Okri, Ben. Astonishing the Gods. 1995.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6508 Achebe, Chinua. Arrow of God. 1964.
/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7162 Laurence, Margaret. A Jest of God. 1966.
American edition titled New Wind in a Dry Land
