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Diler, Elif, and Derya Emir. "Politics and History in Ben Okri’s the Famished Road." European Journal of Language and Literature 6, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v6i1.p90-95.

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In the post-World War II period, magical realism, as a distinctive mode of fiction, has offered cultural hybridity, transformation and intermingling, and has thus been a significant means of communication for the postcolonial world. It has enabled postcolonial authors to get the chance of observing the world from a different perspective and seeing the truth with a ‘third eye’. The Nigerian-British author Ben Okri’s The Famished Road, which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1991, is one of the postcolonial magical realist novels aiming at viewing the world with a third eye. In The Famished Road, Okri attempts to investigate sociopolitical and historical realities, to understand and solve the paradoxes and secrets of history in the language of magic and dreams. In the novel he connects politics directly with the concept of history; his conception of ‘inviolate’ African consciousness becomes the base for his representation of history. The aim of this study is to scrutinize the ways in which Okri encodes African consciousness versus Western epistemology and reevaluates history. The study tries to analyze how Okri redreams postcolonial potentials for his hometown, Nigeria, by extension for the whole African continent, through magical realism functioning as a third eye in The Famished Road.
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Ringrose, Christopher. "“The Mind Develops Wings”: The Famished Road." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5334.

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Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie. "The Famished Road: Ben Okri’s Family Romance?" Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5358.

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Brazzelli, Nicoletta. "Postcolonial Transformations: the Forest in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Le Simplegadi, no. 17 (November 2017): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17456/simple-63.

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Ikechi, Emeka. "Stylistic Devices in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 5, no. 1 (February 3, 2016): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v5i1.20.

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Mccabe, Douglas. "?Higher Realities?: New Age Spirituality in Ben Okri'sThe Famished Road." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 4 (December 2005): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.4.1.

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McCabe, Douglas. "New Age Spirituality, Abiku and Hunger in The Famished Road." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5324.

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Ikechi, Emeka. "The Reign of Evil in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 4, no. 3 (October 27, 2015): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v4i3.14.

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Fyfe, Alexander. "Wealth in Fiction: Capitalism, Animism, and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 3 (July 20, 2018): 318–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2018.7.

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This article proposes the concept of noncapitalist wealth as a line of inquiry into the relations among capitalism, animism, and literary production. I begin by discussing the methodological implications of Harry Garuba’s influential essay on “animist materialism” and suggest that Garuba’s operating theory of capital means that his method ultimately leads to a mode of reading that understands animism as bearing primarily upon representation rather than on literary production. The result is a mode of reading that lacks sensitivity to the implications of the influence of specific animisms on individual texts. Eschewing an encompassing theory of animism’s relation to literary production, I propose the concept of noncapitalist wealth, derived in part from Karl Marx and anthropologists such as Jane I. Guyer, as a potential avenue of inquiry within the debate around literary animisms. I offer a reading of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road trilogy (1990–1998) to demonstrate the ways in which an operating concept of wealth, combined with a sensitivity to contemporary forms of capitalism, can help to reveal the political dimension of some literary texts.
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Mathuray, Mark. "The Famished Road after Postmodernism: African Modernism and the Politics of Subalternity." Callaloo 38, no. 5 (2015): 1100–1117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2015.0147.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "The Famished Road"

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Carbonieri, Divanize. "Hibridismo e simultaneidade no romance \'The famished road\', de Ben Okri." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-08112007-144812/.

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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 entre esses mundos. Na construção de seu romance, Okri tenta traduzir essa visão para um público leitor ocidental, utilizando ao mesmo tempo paradigmas da oralidade africana e da literatura ocidental. O romance se coloca, assim, num espaço de transição entre a cultura africana e a ocidental. São utilizados métodos e estratégias narrativas de ambas as tradições e o próprio fenômeno do abiku é investido por outras concepções mais ocidentais a respeito da ressurreição da alma. O objetivo desta dissertação é mostrar, de acordo com uma perspectiva crítica pós-colonial, como esse romance se constrói como uma obra híbrida entre os modos de se perceber e de se retratar a realidade característicos de cada uma dessas culturas.
In the novel The Famished Road (1991) Nigerian author Ben Okri gives a new dimension to the spirit child or abiku\'s image, which is a recurrent motif among the Yoruba and many other cultures from West Africa. The abiku is a characteristic subject of the African oral narrative and is also present in some African literature in English as the abiku is part of the belief of those cultures. However, Okri undertakes an innovation, turning the abiku into the narrator of his novel. Since this creature is an in between, living permanently in the intersection between the world of the living and the world of the dead, the structure of the literary work is altered by the reality as it is seen through his eyes. His vision is made up by the simultaneous images of those two worlds. In the construction of his novel, Okri tries to translate this vision to a Western reading audience, using paradigms from both the African orality and Western literature. Thus, the novel is placed in a transitional space between African and Western cultures. Narrative methods and strategies from both traditions are used and the abiku phenomenon itself is invested by other more Western conceptions about the soul\'s resurrection. This dissertation aims to reveal from a postcolonial theoretical perspective how this novel is constructed as a hybrid work between the modes of perceiving and depicting reality characteristic of each one of these cultures.
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Compton, Marissa Deane. "The Living River: Ritual and Reconciliation in The Famished Road." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6816.

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In Ben Okri's The Famished Road, rituals such as baptism are easily lost in the dense symbolism. The novel is, in the words of Douglas McCabe, a "ramshackle and untidy affair, a hodge-podge of social ideologies, narrative forms, effusive enthusiasms, and precision-jeweled prose poems" (McCabe 17). This complex untidiness can be discouraging for readers and critics alike, and yet "there is something contagious about the digressive, meandering aesthetic of The Famished Road" that makes the novel difficult to consign to confusion (Omhovere 59). Commonly considered post-colonial, post-modern, and magical-realist, The Famished Road deals with, among other things, spiritualism, family relations, and political and sociological tensions in Nigeria in the decades before its publication in 1991. These themes are depicted with a rush of symbols, and in such a clamor, baptism and other rituals may have trouble making themselves heard. And yet, paying attention to the repeated performance of baptism transforms this audacious, ramshackle novel into a story of liminality, alienation, and reconciliation, a story which celebrates these things as inevitable and necessary parts of life. As readers, we can use baptism to decode The Famished Road. In doing so, the novel develops a cyclical, ongoing narrative focused on the difficulties of and increased agency in liminality and the necessity of ritual, on an individual, familial, and socio-cultural level, in navigating that in-betweeness. I will begin by exploring baptism in The Famished Road in order to understand the performance and power of ritual. Here, ritual acts as a doorway, giving characters a chance to navigate liminality without removing themselves from it. This navigation gives them an increased understanding of how the world works and how they may operate in it. After exploring baptism as a ritual, I will examine Okri's "universal abikuism" and its connection to the flexibility of liminality.
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Irene, Michael Oshoke. "Re-inventing oral tradition in Ben Okri's trilogy : The Famished Road, Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2015. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/700738/.

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Most Nigerian novelists shun the use of Nigerian oral traditions in their works due to a myriad of reasons. From this perspective, the project investigated why Nigerian oral traditions are rarely used in contemporary Nigerian novels. However, findings revealed that some modern Nigerian novelists use these oral traditions in their literary oeuvre. The project explored Ben Okri’s trilogy: The Famished Road, Songs of Enchantment and Infinite Riches and analysed how the author used these traditions. It was discovered that Ben Okri uses riddles, proverbs, myths and legends to present Nigeria’s history, present issues and to proffer solutions to the country’s countless problems and more importantly, these elements allowed the author to experiment with narrative techniques. Derrida’s Specters of Marx and Freud’s Uncanny were studied to extrapolate some of Okri’s ideologies. The project concluded that contemporary Nigerian authors have a role to play in the preservation of Nigerian oral traditions and I showed this in my creative writing piece, The Seeds’ Tales.
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Ngam, Roland Nkwain. "Ben Okri's The famished road: a case study in the translation of New Englishes." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4513.

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Abstract This dissertation suggests a new approach to the translation of African literature, and more precisely African literature in English, considering that the English language has evolved. In most former colonies, New Englishes exist alongside standard varieties of English. This linguistic trend needs to be accompanied by well thought out and researched strategies, if translations are to match the success of the original versions. As a first step, the research report engages with a definition of New Englishes as well as of other important concepts in the research report: colonialism, post-colonialism, negritude, translation, nativisation and indigenisation. Examples of New Englishes are established through an analysis of The Famished Road. This is followed by a discussion of translation theory, with special focus on dynamic equivalence and functionalism. Finally, recommendations are made in relation to methods and strategies for translating a West African novel from English to French.
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Hosking, Tamlyn. "The language of dreams : a study of transcultural magical realism in four postcolonial texts." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1895.

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This research provides an analytical reading of four contemporary novels, in a transcultural study of magical realism and dreams. Two of the novels, Ben Okri's The Famished Road and its sequel Songs of Enchantment, examine dreams through magical realism in postcolonial African literature. The third novel, Toni Morrison's Beloved, is used to depict the use of memory within an African-American magical realist novel. And the fourth narrative is Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares, which focuses on the use of hallucination within what can be seen as a magical realist mode. The analysis of these novels examines certain aspects of magical realism, including the use of the subconscious, focusing primarily on dream, memory and hallucination. In examining this topic, I aim to suggest that the use of the subconscious, within this literature, allows the writer to comment on a particular society. As can be seen in previous studies of magical realism, the writer is able to express his or her dissatisfaction with society by destabilising conventionally accepted truths. A writer can therefore convey a sense that the surface of a particular culture or society is a facade, disguising certain hidden truths, which require a more in depth examination, in order to more fully understand the workings behind that society. The subconscious works to reveal these hidden realities, and is therefore a mode of resistance in that it allows the writers an avenue through which to express their dissatisfaction with their particular society. This is achieved through the exploring and deconstruction of certain boundaries within the novels which, along with several other factors, essentially concords the magical realism inherent in these texts. It is additionally enhanced through the use of the device of the subconscious, which allows the writers to transgress borders, and further explore their particular cultures. Through the use of novels from various contemporary societies, I hope to establish the fact that the subconscious, and therefore magical realism, is a transcultural technique, in that it traverses a multitude of cultures, without being specific to any one in particular. While the use of dreams requires a culture specific interpretation, the use of the subconscious in this literature can be seen as a global technique of expressing dissatisfaction within these societies.
Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.
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Books on the topic "The Famished Road"

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Okri, Ben. The famished road. London: Cape, 1993.

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Okri, Ben. The famished road. New York: N.A. Talese, 1992.

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Okri, Ben. The famished road. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.

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Okri, Ben. The famished road. London: J. Cape, 1991.

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Okri, Ben. The famished road. London: Vintage, 1992.

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Okri, Ben. Famished Road. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016.

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Okri, Ben. The Famished Road. Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, 2020.

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Okri, Ben. Infinite Riches (The Famished Road). Phoenix House, 1999.

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Okri, Ben. The Famished Road: Introduction by Vanessa Guignery. Everyman's Library, 2021.

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Okri, Ben. The Famished Road, the (David Philip Saedition). Vintage Books, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "The Famished Road"

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Brückner, Thomas. "Okri, Ben: The Famished Road." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_16667-1.

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Tambling, Jeremy. "Ben Okri: The Famished Road." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies, 1–4. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_315-1.

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Mathuray, Mark. "Sacred Realism: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." In On the Sacred in African Literature, 115–36. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230240919_5.

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Sasser, Kim Anderson. "Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." In Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism, 71–106. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137301901_3.

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Warnes, Christopher. "The African World View in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." In Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel, 124–49. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230234437_6.

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Barker, Clare. "’Redreaming the World’: Ontological Difference and Abiku Perception in The Famished Road." In Postcolonial Fiction and Disability, 158–88. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230360006_6.

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Brown, Aaron. "Family Politics: Negotiating the Family Unit as a Creative Force in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." In Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora, 69–82. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91310-0_4.

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Leonard, Garry. "‘The Famished Roar of Automobiles’: Modernity, the Internal Combustion Engine, and Modernism." In Disciplining Modernism, 221–41. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230274297_14.

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"The Famished Road." In The Infinite Longing for Home, 59–88. BRILL, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401201490_007.

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"REVOLUTION REVISITED IN THE FAMISHED ROAD." In Ways of Being Free, 143–73. Brill | Rodopi, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401208093_012.

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