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An African story where the real and spiritual live together

The Unforgotten, by Imali Abala. (Courtesy)

Imali Abala's The Unforgotten (2023) is a captivating story that takes a postmodernist trajectory through deliberate rejection of the grand narrative to focus on subjects considered trivia by the rational modernist perspective.

Citing Lyotard, Datta (2018) contends that contemporary literature does not have to abide by the universalisation of values that elevate politics, history, science and social progress in tandem with demands of rationality.

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