Rosemary Alice Gray

Broschiertes Buch

The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri

Beschreibung

Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-depth study of Okri's themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri's career-long engagement with myth, Nigerian politics and culture, and with the environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene.

Autor

Rosemary Alice Gray is 'Emeritus Professor' in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a rated researcher, specializing in Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and Pan-African texts; her current research interest is the work of Ben Okri. She has written or presented thirty-one papers on Okri's oeuvre in the past decade. She is Honorary Life Vice President of the English Academy of Southern Africa and Managing Editor of the English Academy Review: Journal of English Studies. Her book publications include Broken Strings: The Politics of Poetry; Sounding Wings: Short Stories from Africa(with Stephen Finn, Longmans); Light Comes out of the Darkness: The History of Expo for Young Scientists(OUP); and A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? The challenges of political succession and elections in Africa(Ssali).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781350249394
• ISBN-10: 1350249394
• Artikelnr.: 74851868