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  • BEN OKRI BEN OKRI
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    BEN OKRI

    Abiodun Adeniji

    Ben Okri: The Quest for an African Utopia investigates the unethical cornucopia of myth and realism in Okri's prose fiction. Ben Okri's recent works have been excoriated as an excursion into...
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  • Conversations with Ben Okri
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    Conversations with Ben Okri

    Guignery, Vanessa

    Conversations with Ben Okri collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The reader is given access to the...
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  • Conversations with Ben Okri
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    Conversations with Ben Okri

    Guignery, Vanessa

    Conversations with Ben Okri collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian writer Ben Okri's work. The reader is given access to the...
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  • A Way of Being Free
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    A Way of Being Free

    From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri- twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects...
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  • In Arcadia
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    In Arcadia

    From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri- a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired. A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo...
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  • A Fire in My Head
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    A Fire in My Head

    A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak. In our...
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  • Mental Fight
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    Mental Fight

    An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance and environmental destructions from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. There is much to celebrate in the human journey so far art in all its...
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    The Last Gift of the Master Artists

    'A magical take on Africa before the arrival of the Atlantic slave ships a world of art and artists, lovers, storytellers and philosophers... The beauty of Okri's prose is (...) the overwhelming star...
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  • African Stories
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    African Stories

    A Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of stories of Africa from centuries past to the present, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian novelist Ben Okri.Award-winning writer Ben Okri, author of...
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  • A Time for New Dreams
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    A Time for New Dreams

    'A single line,' writes Ben Okri, 'can lead the mind to terraces of contemplation. Naturally it depends on the line and the view.' This is a collection of exquisitely crafted essays on themes as...
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  • The Age of Magic
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    The Age of Magic

    From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a...
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  • The Comic Destiny
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    The Comic Destiny

    Okri, Ben

    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. In The Comic Destiny, Ben Okri brings...
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  • Astonishing the Gods
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    Astonishing the Gods

    Okri, Ben

    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. 'The hero of this novel finds what he did...
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  • The Comic Destiny
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    The Comic Destiny

    This significant title story 'The Comic Destiny' forms the centrepiece of this collection, complemented by thirteen magical stokus. In his new introduction Ben Okri describes it as a talisman, an...
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    Tiger Work

    If we continue to live as we do now, Ben Okri argues in this evocative collection, there will be no world left for us to fix. He imagines messages, sent to us from beyond the end, from those who saw...
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  • ALT 21 Childhood in African Literature
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    ALT 21 Childhood in African Literature

    Eldred Durosimi Jones

    This volume examines linguistic, literary, gender and generation issues in both autobiographies and fictional treatments of childhood in the works of Camara Laye, Wole Soyinka, Mongo Beti, Chinua...
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  • On the Sacred in African Literature On the Sacred in African Literature
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    On the Sacred in African Literature

    M. Mathuray

    Introduction PART I: DIRECTIONS Realising the Sacred: Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God Dramatising the Sacred: Wole Soyinka's 'The Fourth Stage' and Kongi's Harvest Politicising the Sacred: Ngugi wa...
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  • Astonishing the Gods
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    Astonishing the Gods

    From Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle-...
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  • Writing Black Britain, 194898
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    Writing Black Britain, 194898

    James Procter

    This anthology brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period. Spanning half a century, it features South Asian, African and...
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  • Mystery Feast:
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    Mystery Feast:

    "In every moment, we are part of the infinite stories that the universe is telling us and that we are telling the universe." Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous...
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  • The Age of Magic
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    The Age of Magic

    Okri, Ben

    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. A group of world-weary travellers discover...
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  • Magical Realism in West African Fiction
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    Magical Realism in West African Fiction

    Brenda Cooper

    This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben...
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  • Magical Realism in West African Fiction Magical Realism in West African Fiction
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    Magical Realism in West African Fiction

    Brenda Cooper

    This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben...
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  • Don Quixote
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    Don Quixote

    De Cervantes, Miguel

    The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel 'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer 'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben Okri ...
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  • World Literature and Dissent
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    World Literature and Dissent

    Lorna Burns

    World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the...
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  • World Literature and Dissent World Literature and Dissent
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    World Literature and Dissent

    Lorna Burns

    World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors　explore the...
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  • The Prophet of Zongo Street The Prophet of Zongo Street
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    The Prophet of Zongo Street

    Mohammed Naseehu Ali

    A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with modernity. Set primarily on Zongo Street, a fictitious...
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  • The Freedom Artist
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    The Freedom Artist

    Okri, Ben

    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. In a world uncomfortably like our own, a...
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  • The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
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    The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age

    Twenty-five stories, twenty-five paintings, five years to write, ten years to paint. This is an extraordinary collaboration between artist and artist- the Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri and the...
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    The Interpreters

    Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka s debut novel tells the story of a group of friends facing political corruption and cultural uncertainty in post-independence Nigeria.Friends since high school, Egbo,...
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  • Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque
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    Postcolonial and Feminist Grotesque

    Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia

    Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women's/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of...
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  • Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon
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    Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon

    Lydia Yee

    This publication accompanies a major new exhibition of Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates (b.1973), focussing on his clay-based work, collaborative projects and large scale sculptures and...
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  • The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
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    The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta

    Tanure Ojaide

    This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms.The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction...
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    Coming of Age Around the World

    Faith Adiele

    Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America, this collection of twenty-four stories from around the world is a wonderful introduction to literature rarely available...
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  • Every Leaf a Hallelujah
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    Every Leaf a Hallelujah

    An environmental fairytale made for our times, written to be read by adults and children, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road. In the forest near Mangoshi's village in Africa...
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  • Catching Butterflies Catching Butterflies
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    Catching Butterflies

    Maria Takolander

    Magical realism was one of the most significant literary developments in the last century. It has become synonymous with the seductive fictions of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Salman...
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  • The Storyworld Accord
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    The Storyworld Accord

    Erin James

    "Storyworlds," mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds...
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  • Futurism and the African Imagination Futurism and the African Imagination
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    Futurism and the African Imagination

    Dike Okoro

    This book investigates how African authors and artists have explored themes of the future and technology within their works. Afrofuturism was coined in the 1990s as a means of exploring the...
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  • Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction
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    Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction

    Daria Tunca

    The combination of the words 'language' and 'Anglophone African literatures' generally brings to mind an aesthetic based on the use of proverbs and phrases borrowed from the writers' mother tongues...
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  • Bluest Eye
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    Bluest Eye

    Morrison, Toni

    The first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in...
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