The Famished Road: Ben Okri’s Family Romance?
This article suggests that by breaking the cycle of the abiku, Okri inserts Azaro into a lineage that turns him into a storyteller. It explores the nature of parent-child relationships in the novel from this perspective, using the concept of family romance to show how the association of family with...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | This article suggests that by breaking the cycle of the abiku, Okri inserts Azaro into a lineage that turns him into a storyteller. It explores the nature of parent-child relationships in the novel from this perspective, using the concept of family romance to show how the association of family with storytelling reverberates in Okri’s writing. |
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