Description |
1 online resource (178 pages) |
Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO ; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR ; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
Summary |
Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri's 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished Road, this volume proposes a spiralling journey into the imaginary homelands of its main protagonist, the adventurous spirit-child Azaro. Over the years, The Famished Road has been attributed a variety of mixed and sometimes contradictory labels (postcolonial, magic realist, mythopoeic, new ageist, picaresque, epic, to name just a few). Contributors to this volume have chosen to look beyond pre .. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Okri, Ben. Famished Road -- Congresses
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Okri, Ben -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
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SUBJECT |
Okri, Ben fast |
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Famished Road (Okri, Ben) fast |
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Homeland in literature -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Homeland in literature
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781443867733 |
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144386773X |
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