Diana Adesola Mafe

Standard Name: Mafe, Diana Adesola

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Literary responses Helen Oyeyemi
Reviewers lavished praise on The Icarus Girl, noting especially Oyeyemi's use of voice and perspective. Ali Smith called it a reworking of the doppelgänger myth, and wrote: Oyeyemi's childish, almost embarrassingly open prose style...

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Mafe, Diana Adesola. “Ghostly Girls in the “Eerie Bush”: Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl as Postcolonial Female Gothic Fiction”. Research in African Literatures, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 21-35.