'Incidents At The Shrine' Okri Analysis

In literature myth is not necessarily the supernatural phenomenon of the unseen but a literary principle of themes and styles observable in certain genres of literature and those recognizable signs or codes are continually employed by writers but with varying from original myth.
Myths can’t be parted from culture and culture can’t be separated from literature. Any literature especially English Literature is based on myths, cultural heritages, civilizations, magical realism, surrealism, colonialism, romance and fundamentalism, etc. I have observed that not a single literary work is free from the realities that belong to culture, myth, tradition, religion, folklore, individual needs and philosophies of human nature. A writer uses myths and these myths create a sense of magical realism in the text. Such as in the story ‘Incidents at the Shrine’ Okri has depicted African myths in the whole process of the burial of Anderson. Bowers states that “magical realism relies upon the presentation of real imagined or magical elements as if they are real.” Shortly it can be said that a vast range of English literature has been observed in the whole literature.
4.2 African Traditions and Myths
Okri is significantly influenced by oral traditions. He uses myths to create new

These are especially about the black people. Okri has described a culture where usually people neither observe any special God nor have any special religion. Although the protagonist of the story Converging City, Agodi, used to pray even after every moment yet no specific religion is observed by him. In some stories, although he tells about Christianity and Christian beliefs yet he does not quote any religious