mythopoetics

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mythopoetics (plural mythopoetics)

  1. A mythopoetic system or construction.
    • 2000, Azzedine Haddour, Colonial Myths: History and Narrative:
      In Noces and subsequently L'Homme révolté he constructs a mythopoetics of the Mediterranean which mythologizes Algeria's history and transcends the darkness of European politics. Almost all of his works celebrate this mythopoetics.