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Author Guignery, Vanessa

Title The Famished Road : Ben Okri's Imaginary Homelands
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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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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Subject Okri, Ben. Famished Road -- Congresses
Okri, Ben -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
SUBJECT Okri, Ben fast
Famished Road (Okri, Ben) fast
Subject Homeland in literature -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Homeland in literature
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443867733
144386773X