Beyond the postcolonial novel: Ben Okri's the famished road and its "abiku" traveller

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 33-45

  Cezair Thompson, Margaret ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60950712718     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002198949603100204     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939, p. 180
2. Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, 1991, p. 3. All primary source quotations will be taken from this edition
3. H. Adlai Murdoch, "Rewriting Writing: Identity, Exile and Renewal in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia", Yale French Studies, 83, vol. 2, 1993, p. 72
4. Abdul JanMohamed, Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1983, p. 183
5. and Philip Curtin, Steven Feierman, Leonard Thompson and Jan Vansina, African History, Boston: Little-Brown, 1978
6. and Cheikh Anta Diop, Precolonial Black Africa, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1987
7. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, p. 183
8. Margaret Cezair-Thompson, "The Disaster Area of the Mind: Interview with Ben Okri", Elle magazine, July 1989
9. See Kwame Anthony Appiah, My Father's House, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 150. Appiah says that the effort on the part of postcolonial writers to delegitimize the realist African novel occurred "because what it [the realist novel] sought to naturalize was a nationalism, that by 1968, had plainly failed"
10. Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters, New York: Collier, 1970, p. 752