| Description |
1 online resource (178 pages) |
| 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 ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Okri, Ben. Famished road -- Congresses.
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Okri, Ben -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Homeland in literature -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guignery, Vanessa. Famished Road : Ben Okri's Imaginary Homelands. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013 9781443845342 |
| ISBN |
9781443867733 (electronic bk.) |
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144386773X (electronic bk.) |
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1322180245 |
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9781322180243 |
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