Articles with "ben okri" as a keyword



Mitshimbilo (“Wanderlust Disease”): Africa’s Future in Zakes Mda’s Sculptors of Mapungubwe and Two of Ben Okri’s Novels

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Published in 2020 at "Journal of Literary Studies"

DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2020.1804213

Abstract: Summary This article extends a deliberation on the centrality of the shaman to the spiritual turn in African literatures, where it was argued that Ben Okri and Zakes Mda’s respective models of shamanism in Sculptors… read more here.

Keywords: sculptors mapungubwe; ben okri; mitshimbilo wanderlust; wanderlust disease ... See more keywords

A Reading of The Last Gift of the Master Artists (2022): Sir Ben Okri's Fire That Burns and Heals

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Published in 2024 at "Research in African Literatures"

DOI: 10.2979/ral.00016

Abstract: ABSTRACT:This article proposes a reading of Ben Okri's novel The Last Gift of the Master Artists (2022) through the prism of an animist unconscious lens drawing, in particular, from Harry Garuba's theory of Animist Materialism… read more here.

Keywords: history; gift master; master artists; ben okri ... See more keywords