The Tough Alchemy Of Ben Okri

Author : Rosemary Alice Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350153004

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The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri by Rosemary Alice Gray Pdf

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-depth study of Okri's themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri's career-long engagement with myth, Nigerian politics and culture, and with the environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.

Author : Rosemary Alice Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350153011

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The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri by Rosemary Alice Gray Pdf

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-depth study of Okri's themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri's career-long engagement with myth, Nigerian politics and culture, and with the environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.

Author : Stephanie Newell,Onookome Okome
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135068943

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Popular Culture in Africa by Stephanie Newell,Onookome Okome Pdf

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, blogging, and music and sports discourses, as well as on popular art forms, urban and youth cultures, and gender and sexuality, the book highlights the dynamism and complexity of contemporary popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the streets of Africa, especially city streets where different cultures and cultural personalities meet, the book asks how the category of "the people" is identified and interpreted by African culture-producers, politicians, religious leaders, and by "the people" themselves. The book offers a nuanced, strongly historicized perspective in which African popular cultures are regarded as vehicles through which we can document ordinary people’s vitality and responsiveness to political and social transformations.

Author : Daniela Verducci,Maija Kūle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031077579

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The Development of Eco-Phenomenology as An Interpretative Paradigm of The Living World by Daniela Verducci,Maija Kūle Pdf

This volume presents eco-phenomenology’s role in pandemics and post-pandemics and takes up the task of eco-phenomenology as a unified project by not focusing on naturalizing phenomenology but rather exploring the full range of possibilities - such as creative acts and self-individualization – in dealing with ecological threats. Eco-phenomenological developments are based on the main concepts of “phenomenology of life”, as created by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. This volume also uniquely explores the Covid-19 pandemic as a phenomenologically interpreted and ecological phenomenon. It appeals to students and researchers working in the fields of phenomenology and environmental philosophy.

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984

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The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature by Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448138548

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The Famished Road by Ben Okri Pdf

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' Azaro, is a spirit child, who in many traditions of Nigeria exists between life and death. Born into a difficult world, Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story. 'In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, Okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. The Famished Road rekindled my sense of wonder. It made me, at age 50, look at the world through the wide eyes of a child' Michael Palin 'This is a book to generate apostles. People will be moved and, with stars in their eyes, will pass on the word' Time Out 'Ben Okri is incapable of writing a boring sentence' Independent on Sunday

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407022550

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Starbook by Ben Okri Pdf

Starbook tells the tale of a prince and a maiden in a mythical land where a golden age is ending. Their fragile story considers the important questions we all face, exploring creativity, wisdom, suffering and transcendence in a time when imagination still ruled the world. A magnificent achievement and a modern-day parable, Starbook offers a vision of life far greater than ourselves.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448105656

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An African Elegy by Ben Okri Pdf

Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road. Okri's dreams are made on the stuff of Africa's colossal economic and political problems, and reading the poems is to experience a constant succession of metaphors of resolution in both senses of the word. Virtually every poem contains an exhortation to climb out of the African miasma, and virtually every poem harvests the dream of itself with an upbeat restorative ending' - Giles Foden, Times Literary Supplement

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Orion Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arkadia (Greece)
ISBN : 0753817071

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In Arcadia by Ben Okri Pdf

A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it. Their journey begins in ignorance and chaos at Waterloo station and takes them through superstition and myth to harmony. In the Louvre, in front of Poussin's masterpiece, they begin to understand. 'In Arcadia takes that staple Shakespearean theme of appearance versus reality and uses it to explore the notion of paradise' Scotsman

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448138531

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Stars Of The New Curfew by Ben Okri Pdf

To enter the world of Ben Okri's stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the jungle heart of Nigeria, all the laws of cause and effect, fact and fiction, are suspended. It is a world where the lives of the powerless veer terrifyingly close to nightmare. In rich, lyrical, almost hallucinatory prose Ben Okri guides us through the fabulous and the mundane, the serene and the randomly violent. The unrelenting Nigerian heat and the implacable darkness of the black-out and the military curfew are the backdrops for his characters each finding their own ways to survive. We witness their dogged resistance to impotence, their unquenchable humour and their insistence on the possibility of love in the face of terror. Written with the lucid clarity and logic of dream, Stars of the New Curfew is a book of visionary imagination.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781905570768

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The Mystery Feast by Ben Okri Pdf

‘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 pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Beginning with a poem, ‘All we do’, Booker prize-winning novelist Ben Okri presents his considered thoughts on the purpose and meaning of stories, concluding with a series of condensed ‘Notes to the modern storyteller’. The collection is completed with a ‘stoku’ – a brief tale on the theme. Based on decades of honing his art, this stimulating booklet gives a glimpse into the mind of a master of contemporary storytelling.

Author : Gwendolyn MacEwen
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781897414200

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Julian the Magician by Gwendolyn MacEwen Pdf

"MacEwen described what she set out to achieve as a "sort of powerful poetic mad half-abandoned prose somewhere between [Kenneth] Patchen and Virginia Woolf." Set in a medieval past that has distinctly modern overtones, the novel is about Julian, a young man who believes he is Christ. Wandering the countryside in a horse-drawn wagon, Julian learns "to suspend logic like a whale on a thread." He becomes a master of alchemy, performing "miracles" like curing the mad and changing water into wine. When his rapt audiences begin to lose faith, Julian must pay with his life. MacEwen skillfully implies a relationship between alchemy, miracles and belief, and the art forms she is engaged in herself, poetry and prose. What is the price the writer-magician must pay to engender belief in her audience? Is something true merely because we believe it? With an afterword by the author's sister."--Jacket

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781788549622

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A Time for New Dreams by Ben Okri Pdf

A collection of exquisitely crafted essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics. '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 diverse as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics. They are responses to the world and the times we live in. They ask unsettling questions. They provoke thoughts and they make us dream. 'Profound and enchanting' The Times. 'There can be no mistaking Okri's passion and intelligence. A powerful piece of work' Sunday Telegraph.

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 1857995937

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Birds of Heaven by Ben Okri Pdf

Author : Ben Okri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786694492

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The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age by Ben Okri Pdf

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 painter Rosemary Clunie. Together they have created a world, and peopled it with dreams. Twenty-five fairy tales for adults, these narratives are a response to our times, informed by our world but not limited by it, imaginative, enchanting, haunting – both prescient and prophetic. Twenty-five original paintings, beautiful, playful, intimate, dreamlike, these works pull you in to a land of colour and vision. Who can say which came first, the word or image, when both grew together out of a long friendship and a creative symbiosis. What if Calvino and Magritte had combined inspiration? What if we could see our world again with a child's eyes? What if there really is a magic lamp?