The famished road : Ben Okri's imaginary homelands / / edited by Vanessa Guignery

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787031603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-4438-6773-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.92
• Soggetti: Homeland in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO ; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR ; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...