Chronotopes of a Continent: Ben Okri and the Spatial Dynamics of The Famished Road

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Abstract: This thesis examines the role of Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991) in the canon of African literature. The unique narrative structure of the novel opens up possibilities of interpretation beyond the potentially limiting scales of analysis often associated with the African novel, including tribe, nation, race, and continent.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 15, 2014

Author	O'Brien-Udry, Cleo
Primary advisor	Woloch, Alex
Advisor	Hanretta, Sean
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of English

Subject	Department of English
Subject	African novel
Subject	Nigeria
Subject	postcolonial literature
Subject	chronotope
Subject	twentieth century literature
Subject	Nigerian history
Subject	Negritude
Subject	Pan-Africanism
Subject	narrative theory
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/tq870rr5030

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Preferred Citation: O'Brien-Udry, Cleo and Woloch, Alex and Hanretta, Sean and . (2014). Chronotopes of a Continent: Ben Okri and the Spatial Dynamics of The Famished Road. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/tq870rr5030

Stanford University, Department of English, Undergraduate Honors Theses

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