Magical Realism as the Third Eye: A Postcolonial Re- reading of Ben Okri's The Famished Road

Author(s)	Veena V Gopal
Country	India
Abstract	The Famished Road , a novel published in 1991 by Okri which won the Booker Prize . The novel can be interpreted as political allegory , a type of literature in which the characters and events in the text " represent , or ' allegorize , ' historical personages and events , " enabling narrative to serve as a model for political discourse . This article introduces postcolonial studies , focusing particularly on African postcolonial literature . And it also. deals with Hybridizing Political Criticism in The Famished Road : A Study of the Abiku Life " , deals with one of the most important postcolonial aspects called hybridity and how it is reflected in the very nature of its abiku protagonist , Azaro and the rest of the characters . The third chapter titled " Recreating Fragmented Histories of Post colonial Societies " , discusses how the resources of language that have been used to establish the themes of the supernatural and the colonial power . The concluding chapter comes up with a closure where the ideas discussed in the previous chapters are consolidated and establishes Okri's affirmation of Nigeria's complex identity .
Keywords	Magical Realism, Hybridity, Postcolonialism, Abiku Myth
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 3, May-June 2023
Published On	2023-06-13
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.3716

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