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

Title
The famished road : Ben Okri's imaginary homelands / edited by Vanessa Guignery.
Publication
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
  • ©2013.

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Additional Authors
Guignery, Vanessa
Description
vi, 170 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Okri, Ben. > Congresses
  • Okri, Ben > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
  • Okri, Ben > Interviews
  • Homeland in literature > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Interviews
Note
  • "This volume comprises a selection of papers presented at an international conference organised in October 2012 at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)."--Page vii.
  • "Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri who provides inight into his writing processes and discusses the main themes, narrative techniques and literary strategies at work in The Famished Road."--Book jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
To see or not to see : Ben Okri's The famished road / Vanessa Guignery -- Ben Okri in conversation : Vanessa Guignery and Catherine Pesso-Miquel -- Episodes and passages : spiralling structure in Ben Okri's The famished road / Kerry-Jane Wallart -- African Gothic : Ben Okri's aesthetics of the uncanny in The famished road / Christian Gutleben -- Inconclusiveness in Ben Okri's The famished road / Claire Omhovère -- The spirit of conviviality and the demons of the marketplace in Ben Okri's The famished road / Gerd Bayer -- Hunger and food metaphors in Ben Okri's The famished road / Mariaconcetta Costantini -- Ben Okri's The famished road and the problematic of novelty / Philip Whyte -- "Redreaming the world" : from orature to emerging genres in African writing, with reference to Ben Okri's The famished road / Vicki Briault Manus -- Revolution revisited : the politics of dreaming in Ben Okri's The famished road / Adnan Mahmutović.
ISBN
  • 1443845345
  • 9781443845342
OCLC
  • 827083207
  • SCSB-12168061
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library