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Murder in the Cassava Patch
Based on a true story,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=On the Passing of Asa Hilliard )〕 Bai T. Moore's ''Murder in the Cassava Patch'' is Liberia's best-known novel. Published by Ducor Publishing House (Monrovia) in 1968, it remains required reading for every Liberian high school student, and is widely regarded as the one real Liberian literary classic〔(J. Kpanneh Doe in ''The Perspective'':"The writing of novels is rather new to the Liberian literary genre. Except for "Murder in the Cassava Patch," a Liberian literary classic, there aren't many others that can be grouped or classified as Liberian literature, or for that matter, constituting a literary tradition." )〕 in a very small literary tradition.〔(Essay (translated into French) on ''The Liberian government and creative fiction'' by John Victor Singler, originally from ''Research in African Literatures'' 2 (4), 1980. )〕
==Plot introduction==
This novelette (less than 16 thousand words, divided into three chapters) deals with the relationship between Gortokai, a young Liberian man, and Tene, the girl he hopes to marry. We learn on the first page that Tene has been murdered most horribly, and that Gortokai is in jail for it. The story promises "to piece together all the circumstances leading to the violent storm which nearly tore off the roofs from many houses in the Dewoin country one bright Sunday morning in the year 1957."〔''Murder in the Cassava Patch'' (1968), Moore, Bai T., Ducor Publishing House (Monrovia), page 5〕 The story begins in the fictional village of Bendabli, off the Monrovia-Bomi Hills road, but the action is quite wide-ranging, ranging from Gbarpolu County in the west as far as Gbarnga and Sanniquellie in the north, while places such as Bomi Hills and Firestone feature offstage as the source of the hard currency that proves such a lure to young girls such as Tene and her sister.
Taking the form of a first person narrative, with a narrator (Gortokai himself) who is fairly unreliable, the novelette makes use of Liberian English and Liberian customs, and deals particularly with how those customs came under pressure in the 1940s and 1950s as young Liberians adapted to the prospect of material advancement offered by the western world. As an indigenous Liberian who had been educated in a US university, Moore was well-placed to explore the tension between these worlds, but he does so in a way that is critical both of materialism and of traditional local culture.
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