Otherworlds, doubles, houses : Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House and White Is for Witching by Anita Harris Satkunananthan

“…The Gothic tropes of the House collide with Oyeyemi’s revisioning of the Yorùbá pantheon and Otherworld. Key figures and symbols from Greco-Roman folklore, Yorùbá mythology and European fairytales are either represented by characters in Oyeyemi’s novels or are present as metaphors. …”
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