In part this is so because myths have no point of origin that can be located in the figure of the author. Whilst in literary theory this has been the project since the advent of structuralism, within the study of mythology this notion of decentring goes back at least as far as Freud, who locates myths within the unconscious and thinks it "extremely probable that myths are distorted vestiges of the wish-fulfilment of whole nations - the age long dreams of young humanity" (qtd...
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in Okpehwo, Myth in Africa 10). If we are to see mythopoeic literature in Africa as an inflection of dissent, then we are faced with the fundamental, and taxing, question of agency because myths have no authorial point of origin. Agency becomes problematical whenever we want to see phenomena within the sphere of decentring and dominant, residual and emergent narratives, whether within the sphere of revolution, of revolt, or of literary production...
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