Study On Witchcraft Culture In Ben Okri's Works

Ben Okri is one of the representative writers of black African.In his fictions,he created a large number of traditional cultural images of black African culture.I will interpret these images.Witchcraft runs through the social life of black africans and has become their way of thinking.In Okri's stories,there are a lot of witchcraft images.In this paper I divides the witchcraft images in his novels into three categories: Witcher;Witchcraft props and witchcraft colors.Witchcraft is a legitimate and nomal part of the black's life.Okri used a lot of mysterious images to create a seemingly bizarre world in his works.Such a world is to some extent the real world in the black africans' view.So the reader can learn the black's ideas to understand the world.Abiku Child navigating between worlds.They are homeless.The world is full of hunger and suffering,and the soul world,though beautiful,cannot stay long.This is abiku's survival dilemma,but also human survival dilemma.The cultural image in the text includes the cultural image inherent in black Africa and the cultural image generated after the combination with the local culture under the influence of Christian culture.The two cultural images are collectively referred to as the localization cultural image of black Africa.The protagonist is a combination of the two cultures,his identity is a abiku but named by Christian culture.There are many Christian cultural images in the novel,but these images can be called as part of the native culture of black Africa,which is combined with black African culture to become a Christian culture with black African characteristics.The author thinks that this point can be better reflected in the part about the color of witchcraft costumes.The meaning of color is generally the same as the cognition of color in western culture,but there are some subtle differences at the same time.All of these can be seen in the impact of Christian culture.Through the study of the cultural image of black Africa in Oakley's works,we can get a glimpse of the whole black African culture and further understand its culture.In addition,it can grasp the influence process of Christian culture on black African culture as a whole and the significance of cultural localization.