The Living River: Ritual and Reconciliation in <em>The Famished Road</em>
In Ben Okri's The Famished Road, rituals such as baptism are easily lost in the dense symbolism. The novel is, in the words of Douglas McCabe, a "ramshackle and untidy affair, a hodge-podge of social ideologies, narrative forms, effusive enthusiasms, and precision-jeweled prose poems"...
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BYU ScholarsArchive
2017
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6816 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7816&context=etd |