No romance The Famished Road (1991), o autor nigeriano Ben Okri dá uma nova dimensão à figura da criança-espírito ou abiku, que é um motivo recorrente entre os iorubás e em diversas outras culturas da África ocidental. Como um fenômeno da crença dessas culturas, o abiku é um tema característico da narrativa oral africana, tendo sido usado também em várias obras da literatura africana de língua inglesa. Okri realiza, contudo, uma inovação ao transformar o abiku no narrador de seu romance. Uma vez que essa criatura é um in between, vivendo permanentemente na intersecção entre o mundo dos vivos e o dos mortos, a estrutura da obra literária é alterada pela realidade vista pelos seus olhos. A sua visão é composta pelas imagens da simultaneidade ...
In The Famished Road (1991) Ben Okri rappresenta gli effetti controversi della decolonizzazione in N...
In 'The Famished Road' Ben Okri deals with the controversial effects of decolonisation in Nigeria an...
Okri’s fiction is a mix of fantasy, realism and oral tradition of Africa. Though the tri...
No romance The Famished Road (1991), o autor nigeriano Ben Okri dá uma nova dimensão à figura da cri...
Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri's 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished ...
Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1993) follows Azaro, an abiku child, and his family through life in an...
Postcolonial theory and criticism started to gain prominence from the last two decades. It consists ...
Most Nigerian novelists shun the use of Nigerian oral traditions in their works due to a myriad of r...
Ben Okri's The Famished Road, winner of the Booker Prize in 1991, follows the wanderings of an abiku...
Ben Okri is a famous Nigerian writer who plays an important role in African and world’s literature. ...
In its narrative style as well as in its cultural environment, magical realism provides the optimal ...
Ben Okri in The Famished Road creates a depiction of his grotesque characters within the ambience of...
This paper assesses positively the important contributions which Ato Quayson and Douglas McCabe have...
This paper assesses positively the important contributions which Ato Quayson and Douglas McCabe have...
In The Famished Road (1991) Ben Okri deals with the controversial effects of decolonisation in Niger...
In The Famished Road (1991) Ben Okri rappresenta gli effetti controversi della decolonizzazione in N...
In 'The Famished Road' Ben Okri deals with the controversial effects of decolonisation in Nigeria an...
Okri’s fiction is a mix of fantasy, realism and oral tradition of Africa. Though the tri...
No romance The Famished Road (1991), o autor nigeriano Ben Okri dá uma nova dimensão à figura da cri...
Some twenty years after the publication of Ben Okri's 1991 Booker Prize winning novel, The Famished ...
Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1993) follows Azaro, an abiku child, and his family through life in an...
Postcolonial theory and criticism started to gain prominence from the last two decades. It consists ...
Most Nigerian novelists shun the use of Nigerian oral traditions in their works due to a myriad of r...
Ben Okri's The Famished Road, winner of the Booker Prize in 1991, follows the wanderings of an abiku...
Ben Okri is a famous Nigerian writer who plays an important role in African and world’s literature. ...
In its narrative style as well as in its cultural environment, magical realism provides the optimal ...
Ben Okri in The Famished Road creates a depiction of his grotesque characters within the ambience of...
This paper assesses positively the important contributions which Ato Quayson and Douglas McCabe have...
This paper assesses positively the important contributions which Ato Quayson and Douglas McCabe have...
In The Famished Road (1991) Ben Okri deals with the controversial effects of decolonisation in Niger...
In The Famished Road (1991) Ben Okri rappresenta gli effetti controversi della decolonizzazione in N...
In 'The Famished Road' Ben Okri deals with the controversial effects of decolonisation in Nigeria an...
Okri’s fiction is a mix of fantasy, realism and oral tradition of Africa. Though the tri...