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21 juillet 2021
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Philip Whyte, « Ben Okri’s The Famished Road in the Context of Post-War West African Literature in English », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.5317
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On publication in 1991 Ben Okri’s The Famished Road was considered as a new departure in West African Anglophone fiction. This paper will seek to establish the novelty of the work by relating it to the literary and socio-political context out of which it emerged. This will lead to an examination of the evolution of the African writer’s role against the swiftly evolving and increasingly conflictual background of contemporary postcolonial studies.