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It analyzes two Swahili warrior-hero figures—Liongo Fumo from oral tradition and Chief Mkwawa of the Hehe, whose resistance to German rule in Tanganyika was later reworked in written literature. A second part extends the analysis to “minor heroes” bridging tradition and modernity. 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The “hero” becomes mythical only after his death, and through a form of remembrance realized in literary productions where his figure is recreated and transmitted through fictitious characters. The central focus of the paper is to examine, within the archetypal theories on myth and “hero,” the figures of two Swahili warriors, namely Liongo Fumo, one of the greatest warrior-hero figures of the Swahili oral tradition, and Chief Mkwawa of the Hehe people, who fought against the German rule in former Tanganyika, and whose deeds have been reinvented and described in modern written literature. Both Liongo Fumo and Mkwawa have acquired the status of mythical warriors, and, as other East African heroes, have inspired poets and writers and become symbols of bravery and national consciousness to which the historical and cultural memory of old and new generations refer. A second part of the work is devoted to the presentation of those who can be defined as “minor heroes” and who nevertheless represent a new way to look at literature and a bridge between tradition and modernity through the use of historical and mythical memory.  \n1. On Archetype and Criticism: A Brief Note  \nThe word‘archetype’derives from Latin archetypum meaning “the original form.” The formulation of a theory of archetypes began in 1912 and marked a split with Freudian theory and the beginning of Jung’s stream of depth psychology – albeit Jung’s first use of the term’archetype’ occurred later in 1919 1 (Roesler 2012: 223) . Jungian archetypal theory is based on the concept of a collective unconscious and argues that any individual’s personality is characterized by two dynamic interacting realms:  \n• consciousness, where two structures co-exist, namely Ego (the locus of the conscious field), and Persona (the individual mask);  \n1 Before using the term archetype, Jung preferred the words “primordial images” – giving them the meaning of“foundations” – an idea that came to him in his attempt to explain the ubiquitous nature of certain cultural motifs which could be explained only taking recourse to some sort of collective human inheritance (Wamitila 2001: 75) .  \n• unconsciousness, divided in its turn into personal – a repository of conscious or repressed experiences – and collective unconsciousness, which contains all the archetypes that are based upon Platonic theory of forms or ideas (Wamitila 2001: 74-75; Roesler 2012: 225; Stinchcomb 2013: 3) .  \nIn Jung2’s conceptualization, the archetype – having form but not content- is an innate pattern of perception and behavior which influences human perception and action and shapes it into similar forms: archetypes are autonomous from consciousness and are universal. It means that it is possible to find the same set of archetypes in all human beings: they are recognized within the subconscious and universally understood. Jung (1958) describes the archetypes as primordial universal images – such as gods and demons, the hero, the great mother, or the wise old man. All these figures are anchored to some moral principle, one that would confront the individual and constrain his or her action (Braga 2016: 226) . According to von Franz (1975: 125-126), a clear distinction must be made between the archetypes and archetypal images: the archetypes are very probably innate structural predispositions which appear in actual experience as the factor, or element, which orders or arranges representations into certain patterns, whereas archetypal images appear in form of mythological and/or symbolic representations which are common to certain collectives, such as whole people of epochs. Even before Jung, it was known that there is a high degree of similarity between mythological narratives in peoples living in different parts of the worl","cbCaidQORWVWX545","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidQORWVWX545","pdf",299988,25,"English","# On Archetype and Criticism: A Brief Note\n# The myth of the hero","[{\"question\":\"Which hero figures does the paper focus on in Swahili literature?\",\"answer\":\"It centers on two warrior-hero figures: Liongo Fumo and Chief Mkwawa, whose deeds were later reinvented in modern written literature.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect the hero image with archetypal theory?\",\"answer\":\"It examines the hero through archetypal theories of myth and “hero,” drawing on Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious and recurring primordial images.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the second part of the work?\",\"answer\":\"It presents “minor heroes” and argues that they offer a new perspective on literature while bridging tradition and modernity through historical and mythical memory.\"}]","More than Just Warriors - Mythical and Archetypal Images of the Hero in Swahili Literature | PDF",63]