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Concise and illuminating. Many interesting concepts such as labeling the USA as a “pointillist empire” due to its territorial extension through the acquisition of a number of islands in the Pacific and Atlantic.

Soyinka’s introduction is superb. In a handful of pages he managed to transform my initial approach, going from merely regarding it as a sort of intellectual curio, to taking it seriously as a work of literature. Apparently, this books is a precursor to magical realism around the world, including Latin America.