03396nam 2200661Ia 450 991080624150332120200520144314.094-012-0149-81-4237-8902-410.1163/9789401201490(CKB)1000000000462508(EBL)556614(OCoLC)714567327(SSID)ssj0000178854(PQKBManifestationID)12037578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178854(PQKBWorkID)10229744(PQKB)10948008(MiAaPQ)EBC556614(Au-PeEL)EBL556614(CaPaEBR)ebr10380622(OCoLC)70802491(nllekb)BRILL9789401201490(EXLCZ)99100000000046250820050930d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe infinite longing for home desire and the nation in selected writings of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam /David C.L. Lim1st ed.Amsterdam ;New York Rodopi20051 online resource (251 p.)Cross/cultures,0924-1426 ;80Revised thesis (Ph.D.).90-420-1677-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index.Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. NATION(S) -- 1 Nation: Conceptions -- 2 Becoming Nations: Nigeria, Malaysia -- PART I I. BEN OKRI: THE ABIKU TRILOGY -- 3 The Famished Road -- 4 Songs of Enchantment -- 5 Infinite Riches -- PART I I I. K.S. MANIAM: TWO NOVELS -- 6 The Return -- 7 In A Far Country -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Synopsis of K.S. Maniam's Unpublished Novel Delayed Passage -- Works Cited -- Index.The Infinite Longing for Home is a groundbreaking study of Ben Okri's and K.S. Maniam's literary problematization of 'home' in relation to subjectivity and the nation within and beyond the context of Nigeria and Malaysia. Drawing on Lacan, Žižek, Laclau and Mouffe, and weaving through history, politics, philosophy and literature, this book critically examines the motives and means by which peoples forced to live together in a country love and hate each other, and overlook the truths about themselves, their actions and beliefs. It looks into why some embrace heterogeneity and open-endedness while others are internally compelled to over-identify passionately with their religion and race, and to posit theirs as irreducibly distinct from and superior to others'. The Infinite Longing for Home also traces through Okri's and Maniam's writings a way out of today's political aporia, a path to the re-creation of a new society humbled and unified by the recognition of its participation in flawed humanity.Cross/cultures ;80.Home in literatureNationalism in literatureMalaysian literatureNigerian literatureHome in literature.Nationalism in literature.Malaysian literature.Nigerian literature.823.914Lim David C. L853676MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806241503321The infinite longing for home4204585UNINA