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  1. Narrative shape-shifting
    myth, humor, & history in the fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing & Yvonne Vera
    Autor*in: Elder, Arlene A
    Erschienen: 2009
    Verlag:  Currey, Woodbridge [u.a.]

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
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  2. Ways of being free
    authenticity and community in selected works of Rushdie, Ondaatje and Okri
    Autor*in: Mahmutović, Adnan
    Erschienen: 2012; ©2012
    Verlag:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Includes bibliographical references and index Iconic migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential "nervous conditions," caused by violent postcolonial... mehr

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index Iconic migrant writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri use their fictional worlds to articulate the ways in which existential "nervous conditions," caused by violent postcolonial history, drive individuals to rework the critical notions of freedom, authenticity and community. This existential thread in their works has been largely ignored or left undeveloped in criticism. Although Rushdie has argued that they primarily write back to the imperial centre(s), in their signature novels, The English Patient , Midnight's Children and The Famished Road , they respond to their co

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789042035348; 9789401208093
    Schriftenreihe: Costerus NS ; v.194
    Costerus New Ser.
    Schlagworte: Authenticity (Philosophy); Philosophy; Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation; Ondaatje, Michael, 1943--Criticism and interpretation; Okri, Ben--Criticism and interpretation; Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature; Communities in literature; Liberty in literature; Electronic books
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    Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Ways of Being Free: Introduction; PART I: WAR IS EVERYTHING'S FATHER: HISTORY AND DEATH AS CAUSES OF EXISTENTIAL ANGST; Introduction: Causes of Existential Angst; Chapter 1 Change and Changelessness in Midnight's Children; Chapter 2 The Road of Existential Struggle in The Famished Road; Chapter 3 History and the "Nervous Condition" in The English Patient; Chapter 4 Death as a Drive to Meaningful Existence in Midnight's Children; Chapter 5 Becoming Dead-to-the-World in The English Patient

    Chapter 6 Ideological Re-appropriation through Death in The Famished RoadPART II: AUTHENTICITY; Authenticity: Introduction; Chapter 7 From Self-Sufficiency to Inoperative Community in The English Patient; Chapter 8 Revolution Revisited in The Famished Road; Chapter 9 From Communalism to the Comic Absurd in Midnight's Children; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index