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Ben Okri’s Wild (2012) : the muse of archaeology
Gray, Rosemary Alice
English in Africa, 2019-04, Vol.46 (1), p.95-110
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Grahamstown: Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA)
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Título:
Ben Okri’s Wild (2012) : the muse of archaeology
Autor:
Gray, Rosemary Alice
Assuntos:
Achebe, Chinua
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Aesthetics
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African cosmogony
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African literature
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Allusion
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Ambiguity
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Ancient civilizations
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Anthropocentrism
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Archaeology
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Ben Okri
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Cultural connections
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Decolonial turns
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Ecocriticism
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Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
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Heroism & heroes
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Ius dominandi [urge to control]
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Literary devices
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Multiculturalism & pluralism
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Narrative techniques
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Okri, Ben
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Ontopoiesis
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Poetry
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Postcolonialism
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Social order
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The poetic muse
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Wild
É parte de:
English in Africa, 2019-04, Vol.46 (1), p.95-110
Descrição:
This article focuses on three related poems inspired by the geology and archaeology of the Rift Valley, using them to develop an argument about Ben Okri’s humanism, optimism and symbolist technique. All three poems are connected by an imagined locus in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and stimulated by the discoveries of fossils of the earliest hominids. Each is distinguished by focus on a particular type of rock, standing in for periods of human development, and thence with the idea of Africa as the origin of humanity generally. These are meditations on human history and imagination from the earliest appearance in Africa of the predecessors of Homo sapiens sapiens to urgent present-day concerns. Okri suggests that through poetry humankind can leap across a postcolonial self/other divide to straddle the polarities of darkness and light. I suggest that his belief is that, through the Imaginatio Creatix, we can re-dream the world and so access our higher nature.
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Grahamstown: Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA)
Idioma:
Inglês
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