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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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Hounhouayenou-Toffa, Ernest. "Defamiliarizing reality: AS IF and SEEM in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Etudes de stylistique anglaise, no. 11 (December 31, 2017): 115–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/esa.649.

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Wallart, Kerry-Jane. "Unstable Narrative Voices and the Irrelevance of Fiction in The Famished Road." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5367.

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Raynaud, Claudine. "The text as riddle and Death's many ways: Ben Okri's The Famished Road." Études anglaises 65, no. 3 (2012): 331. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/etan.653.0331.

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de Bruijn, Esther. "Coming to Terms with New Ageist Contamination: Cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri'sThe Famished Road." Research in African Literatures 38, no. 4 (December 2007): 170–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2007.38.4.170.

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SOWANDE, BODE. "The Metaphysics of Abiku: A literary heritage in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Matatu 23-24, no. 1 (April 26, 2001): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000356.

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McCabe, Douglas. ""Higher Realities": New Age Spirituality in Ben Okri's The Famished Road." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 4 (2005): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0171.

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Cezair-Thompson, Margaret. "Beyond the Postcolonial Novel: Ben Okri's The Famished Road and its "Abiku" Traveller." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31, no. 2 (June 1996): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949603100204.

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Lanone, Catherine. "Parasites, or the Politics of Textual Poetics in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5349.

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Vazquez, J. S. F. "Recharting the geography of genre: Ben Okri's, The Famished Road as a postcolonial, Bildungsroman." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 37, no. 2 (August 1, 2002): 85–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198902322439808.

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Vázquez, José Santiago Fernández. "Recharting the Geography of Genre: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road as a Postcolonial Bildungsroman." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 37, no. 2 (June 2002): 85–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198940203700207.

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Guignery, Vanessa. "A Voice Without a Name: Choruses and Storytellers in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 79–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5359.

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Birat, Kathie. "The Liberty of Limitations: The Paradoxes of Narration in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 101–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5372.

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Ifesieh, Emeka Chiegboka Cyrinus. "A Critique of Okri’s "The Famished Road" and Select Examples of the German Translation by Witmann." International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies 18, no. 1 (2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-7882/cgp/v18i01/1-19.

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Saradashree, Choudhury. "Folklore and society in transition: A study of The Palm- Wine Drinkard and The Famished Road." African Journal of History and Culture 6, no. 1 (January 31, 2014): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ajhc2013.0158.

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Wu, Chengyi Coral. "From Cultural Hybridization to Ecological Degradation:The Forest in Chinua Achebe’sThings Falls Apartand Ben Okri’sThe Famished Road." Journal of the African Literature Association 6, no. 2 (January 2012): 93–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2012.11690182.

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Cooper, Brenda. "Snapshots of Postcolonial Masculinities: Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library and Ben Okri's The Famished Road." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34, no. 1 (March 1999): 135–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949903400109.

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Whyte, Philip. "Ben Okri’s The Famished Road in the Context of Post-War West African Literature in English." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 35, no. 2 (April 1, 2013): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5317.

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Asempasah, Rogers. "Exile and postcolonial national redemption in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus." African Studies 79, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 267–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2020.1838259.

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Kehinde, Ayo. "Rulers agains writers, writers against rules : the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction." Journal of English Studies 8 (May 29, 2010): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.149.

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Various literary critics have dwelt on the nature, tenets and trends of commitment in Nigerian literature. However, there is paucity of studies on the imaginative narration of the impediments facing the actualization of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigeria. This paper examines the strategies and techniques of representing the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction, using the examples provided by Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah, Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. The methodology involves a close reading of the selected texts, using Jurgen Habermas’ Public Sphere as analytical concept. In the selected novels, Nigeria is depicted as a country where the rulers disallow the existence of the ‘public sphere’, which is supposed to provide a liminal space among the private realms of civil society and the family, as well as the sphere of public authority. This is disclosed in the refusal of the characters, who typify the rulers, to disregard status altogether.

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DEĞİRMENCİ, Aslı. "The Supernatural and the Real: Dreams, Myths, and Perceptions of Reality in Ben Okri s The Famished Road." Mediterranean Journal of Humanities 5, no. 2 (December 27, 2015): 223. http://dx.doi.org/10.13114/mjh.2015214568.

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Waliaula, Ken Walibora. "Disenchantment with the State of the Nation in Ben Okri’sThe Famished Road, Orhan Pamuk’sSnowand Rashid al Daif’sPassage to Dusk." Journal of the African Literature Association 3, no. 1 (January 2008): 49–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2008.11690094.

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Kenzo, Mabiala Justin-Robert. "Religion, hybridity, and the construction of reality in postcolonial Africa." Exchange 33, no. 3 (2004): 244–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254304774249907.

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AbstractThat Africans are incurably religious has been one of the pillars on which current knowledge on Africa and the Africans is built. However, the accuracy of the claim is questionable on a number of fronts. The paper suggests that the real significance of the question is that it raises the issue of cultural determinism and indeterminism. Taking our cue from the postmodern and postcolonial criticism, we argue that cultures (or religions) are not ready-made packages that are passed on from one generation to another. Rather, cultures are transmitted through processes that can be described in terms of interactivity, negotiability, indeterminacy, fragmentation, and conflict. More importantly, humans are active participants in these processes. Based on this view of culture, the paper argues that the religious identity of Africans is a matter of constructed hybridity. Our reading of Ben Okri's Famished Road further demonstrates that Africans are neither incurably religious nor incurably irreligious. Instead, they skillfully and creatively construct their identity borrowing insights from resources that are both endogenous and exogeneous to Africa and their own tribal contexts.

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Harp, Nicholas Allen. "X-Men, and: Quotients, and: Hypnosis, and: Frank Lloyd Wright & the Last Famished Mosasaur, and: Astronomy 101, and: Road Trip." Missouri Review 25, no. 1 (2002): 117–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mis.2002.0077.

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Nammi, Srividya. "Universal Vision in the Fiction of Ben Okri." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 11 (November 28, 2020): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i11.10841.

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Okri’s fiction is a mix of fantasy, realism and oral tradition of Africa. Though the trilogy nearly covers some fourteen hundred odd pages, it doesn’t have a proper beginning or end. Okri’s view of an unnamedAfrican ghetto, which is going to get independence, is presented in these novels. He is not giving solutions to the existing problems , he is simply presenting the true nature of an African state in an elusive manner. He narrates The Famished Road through the experiences of an ‘abiku’, Azaro, a seven year old child. He uses Azaro to narrate the chaotic state of affairs in an African state , and educates Azaro with the rich African culture in the form of stories told by his mother and father, and shows the real state of Africa in the form of photographs taken by the photographer, Jeremiah. Okri’s fiction has many layers of meaning which makes the task of analysis difficult. Though several labels like magical realism, Post-colonial, post-modern text are given the trilogy defies any particular definition. After examining his Trilogy thoroughly, it seems that Okri though elusive in his writings apparently wants a new – world. The Trilogy moves in the direction of anticipating a world fine tuned to harmonious living.

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Sonaiya, Remi. "Of Change, Famished Roads, and African Development." Diogenes 51, no. 2 (May 2004): 83–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0392192104044276.

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Obumselu, B. "Ben Okri’s "The Famished Road": A re-evaluation." Tydskrif vir letterkunde 48, no. 1 (February 23, 2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v48i1.63818.

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Teimouri, Mahdi. "Time and Vision in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2055819.

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Carbonieri, Divanize. "Hibridismo e simultaneidade em The Famished Road de Ben Okri." Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture 30, no. 1 (July 9, 2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v30i1.4060.

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"Political Polarization and Cultural Imperialism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Strad Research 7, no. 10 (October 7, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.37896/sr7.10/024.

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"Postcolonial Realities in Ben Okri’s the Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment." International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 8, no. 2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0802001.

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Powers, Connor. "Building an African Identity through Magical Realism: Cyclicality in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." North Texas Journal of Undergraduate Research 2, no. 1 (March 30, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.12794/journals.ntjur.v2i1.203.

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Guignery, Vanessa. "Landscapes Within, Landscapes Without: The Forest and Other Places in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." Études britanniques contemporaines, no. 47 (November 1, 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ebc.1974.

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Monnier, Fanny. "Travelling The Famished Road of Ben Okri or How to Revolutionize the World by Revolving Inward." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 42, no. 1 (December 20, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.698.

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Akingbe, N. "On The Threshold of Moral Crisis: Poetics of Good and Bad Characters in "the Famished Road"." Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research 7, no. 2 (August 10, 2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/lwati.v7i2.57548.

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Gutleben, Christian. "Entre métonymie, métaphore et métatextualité : le trope surdéterminé de la route dans The Famished Road de Ben Okri." Études britanniques contemporaines, no. 47 (November 1, 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ebc.1958.

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