Ben Okri’s The Famished Road: A re-evaluation

This paper assesses positively the important contributions which Ato Quayson and Douglas McCabe have made to the understanding of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. But it questions whether placing the novel firmly in the context of Yoruba orality, as Quayson does, or in the tradition of New Age spiritua...

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Main Author: Ben Obumselu
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2017-05-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/2334