Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42956
Full metadata record
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Asempasah, Rogers | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-08T08:13:40Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-05-08T08:13:40Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019-04 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Asempasah, R. (2019). Re-thinking beginning : Okri’s The Famished Road and the crisis of the postcolonial nation. Antae Journal, 6(1), 51-66. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/42956 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This essay explores the centrality of beginning in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Beginning is explored not as a narratological category but a dominant trope in anticolonial nationalists’ discourses of nation formation and the transition to liberation. I argue that Okri’s exploration of beginning can be read in critical dialogue with Fanon, and can be framed by David Scott’s idea of tragic consciousness. This essay demonstrates how Okri redefines time as a complex process of disorder and order; within this scheme of things, beginning is presented in The Famished Road not a singular event but as a recurrent potential for national reinvention and generational responsibility constituted by radical betrayal. In other words, beginning is a moment plucked out of the paradoxical flux of time. This essay concludes that Okri’s reconceptualisation of beginning has implications for Scott’s notion of crisis of temporality and tragic consciousness. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Malta. Department of English | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Beginning -- Philosophy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Okri, Ben -- Criticism and interpretation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Okri, Ben. The Famished Road | en_GB |
dc.subject | Postcolonialism in literature | en_GB |
dc.subject | Postcolonialism -- Africa | en_GB |
dc.title | Re-thinking beginning : Okri’s The Famished Road and the crisis of the postcolonial nation | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Antae Journal | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | Antae Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1 Antae Journal, Volume 6, Issue 1 |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Antae,_6(1)_-_A4.pdf | 306.73 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Items in OAR@UM are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.