Parasites, or the Politics of Textual Poetics in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
This paper discusses Ben Okri’s novel The Famished Road in the light of Michel Serres’s analysis of the paradigm of the parasite, both as an animal and/or human predator, and as random noise that disturbs a system through interference. The Famished Road creates textual “noise” through the systematic...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Autor principal: | Lanone, Catherine |
| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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