A POSTMODERNIST REPRESENTATION IN BEN OKRI’S THE FAMISHED ROAD AND FLOWERS AND SHADOWS
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This dissertation titled: A postmodernist Representation in Ben Okri’s
The Famished Road and Flowers and Shadows is premised on the argument
that irrespective of their individual themes, novels are significant
mechanisms of presentation or representation of thoughts and ideas
through semblances circumscribed by narration or telling, all of which
are contingent upon various representative modes. In the present
context, postmodernist representation of necessity has been defined as
an artistic as well as an aesthetic form to represent a social reality.
When these attempts follow literary prescriptions, they are described as
the literary representation of a given entity such as a nation, which
is ultimately, the intersection between ideology and form in the text
bringing out the salient issues – themes - into which the writing
subject constantly disappears. This dissertation therefore demonstrates
the relevance and applicability of postmodernist representation to the
study of Ben Okris‘s The Famished Road and Flowers and Shadows. Okri
appropriates materials and events using the protocols of narratology by
refining and variegating the materials which appear aesthetically in
their current literary form as novels. The findings reveal that;
Postmodernist representation is of literary value on or about a topic,
That the novel form is the best suited artistic form for the explication
of postmodernist representation of the themes in the novels under study
and finally, that Okri‘s The Famished Road and Flowers and Shadows are
axiomatic of the centrality of Nigerian literature on postmodernist
representation.
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