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- Title
The Quest for Climatic Sanity: Re-Reading of Akan Creation Myth.
- Authors
Nkansah, Samuel Kwesi
- Abstract
The process of creation with its attendant questions of understanding the world has been the bane of the quest for knowledge to understand natural hazards. The recent climatic hazards confronting mankind are blamed on climate change. One literary genre that seeks to explain the causes of natural hazards, including climate change, is the creation myth. All cultures of humankind have specific myths they harness as basic answers to mind-boggling questions on natural occurrences. This paper sets out to examine how the Akan creation myth is employed to address issues of climate change as well as the direction given to ensure the sustainability of development. In achieving this, five Akan creation myths are analysed through the lens of the formalistic approach to literary appreciation. The study reveals that Akan creation myths provide meaning to basic issues in natural occurrences and also provide means to protect the climate against unhealthy practices, failure of which spells doom in offsetting developmental agenda. The research has implications for the scholarship of both oral literature and climate change.
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 8, p370
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Academic Journal