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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...

Okri, Ben --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Homeland in literature --- Okri, Ben. --- Okri, Benjamin --- Criticism and interpretation

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In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Alamantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Alamantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which lies the Prison. Then Karnak discovers that he is not the only one looking for the truth. The Freedom Artist is an impassioned plea for justice and a penetrating examination of how freedom is threatened in a post-truth society.

Okri, Ben --- Political persecution --- Missing persons --- Prisons --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Political aspects

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Locating Ben Okri as a cosmopolitan and migrant writer rather than a Nigerian national writer has been an important consideration in the analysis of his work. He occupies the liminal zone between the borders of nation which produces a distinct subjectivity in comparison to those who remain within the confines of the postcolony. It has been important for us to demonstrate how the narration of nation within his works has also been indicative of the need to imagine a homogeneous homeland from the location of London. Our insistence on the diasporic element of Okri's subjectivity was to show how this contingent moment exercised its influence within his narratives. We argue that Okri's achieving of cultural singularity at a formal level of discourse is a process of transformation similar to Afro-Caribbean, Afro-American, and diasporan African narratives that transform the nature of Europhone languages to express black experience. In our study, we have divided the body of his novels into three broad sections. The first section is comprised of Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981) which represent a narrative of internal dissent constructed through the ambivalent discourse of mimicry. Section two deals with Okri's distancing from the codes of representation of Realism in Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988) where he explores a distinct multi-perspectival narrative. Okri's third phase of writing includes The Famished Road (1991), Songs of Enchantment (1993), and Infinite Riches (1998); novels which indicate a transcultural stage of postcolonial writing. Ben Okri's literary production is paradigmatic of how a postcolonial artist has the power to transform a mimetic writing into a new literary space created through a hybridic consciousness. Principally, we can locate this development at the crossroads where a West African resource-base meets the English book. Okri's work has thus moved towards the performance of diversity where the traces of many distinct ontologies are conceptualised through an Afro-modern writing system. Okri, as a postcolonial writer, bridges the multicultural site of London with Africa and the global and thus performs a transnational movement of culture.

OKRI (BEN), 1959 --- -Littérature nigériane --- Littérature nigériane de langue anglaise --- Histoire et critique

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Johnson, Samuel --- Okri, Ben --- Tutuola, Amos --- Soyinka, Wole --- Johnson (samuel), d. 1901 --- Soyinka (wole), 1934 --- -Tutuola (amos), 1920-1997