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9780746309933

Ben Okri Towards the Invisible City

by Fraser, Robert
  • ISBN13:

    9780746309933

  • ISBN10:

    0746309937

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-09
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Summary

The first ever full-length study of Booker Prize-winning novelist Ben Okri's life and work argues that his writing is best appreciated against the backdrop of his early exposure to the Nigerian Civil War, the setting of his celebrated novel The Famished Road.

Author Biography

Robert Fraser is Senior Research Fellow at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. viii
Acknowledgementsp. xi
Biographical Outlinep. xii
Abbreviationsp. xviii
A Dance of Descriptionsp. 1
Among the Spirit Children, 1959-1978p. 12
Responsibilities: Fictions, 1978-1982p. 23
The Visible City, 1978-1991p. 37
Microcosms: Fictions, 1982-1988p. 48
'When the road waits, famished', 1991-1998p. 66
The Invisible City, 1995-p. 83
Beyond Wordsp. 95
Notesp. 103
Select Bibliographyp. 111
Indexp. 117
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