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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2009-05)This article begins by pointing to the dearth of critical attention to Ben Okri’s novel, In Arcadia ([2002] 2003. London: Phoenix). Examples of the sparse but dismissive critical reviews of this novel are given, showing ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2020)The argument in this article is that Ben Okri’s ekphrastic The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age (London: Apollo, 2017) reveals an ontopoietic or heightened awareness literature of the “imagiNation”, to borrow a neologism from ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (De Gruyter, 2018-07)The title of this presentation is derived from Ben Okri’s latest publication, The Magic Lamp (2017), itself an intersectional text featuring a selection of Rosemary Clunie’s art and Okri’s accompanying ontopoietic/ ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2021)The central premise in this article is that Ben Okri's generational protest poem, “The Incandescence of the Wind”, first published in An African Elegy (London: Jonathan Cape, 1992) and republished in Rise like Lions (London: ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2019-07)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 ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Common Ground Research Networks, 2019)As this prize-winning short story from Ben Okri’s Incidents at the Shrine (1993) is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, I shall begin by briefly contextualizing Biafra’s quest for freedom in the late 1960s. I ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2020)This article seeks to unveil Ben Okri’s antidote to the proposition that the “normal” world is an asylum for mind control. Acknowledging its rich literary undercurrent, I posit that The Freedom Artist (2019), countering ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2013)This paper begins with an initial justification of the chosen title and argues for the idea of The Landscapes Within effectively becoming the eponymous hero of a tale, the trajectory of which is the inner workings of the ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2023)This issue of English Academy Review provides both contributors and readers of our internationally acclaimed journal with a rare opportunity to imagine themselves as novice deep-sea divers, not in search of a Tennysonian ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2022)The articles featured in this final issue, compiled and edited by Dr Sopelekae Maithufi, the outgoing editor-in-chief, and finalised by Professor Emerita Rosemary Gray, managing editor of English Academy Review, provide a ...
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Saha, Tushar Kanti; Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2017-08)This article argues that Lesotho’s landlocked position, which inhibits trade and results in enclaves of the poor, not only leads to its dependency on South Africa, but also contributes to its instability. It points out ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2022)Bookended by the life of Busisiwe Mhkonto, When the Village Sleeps can be read as an “unfinished symphony”. The musicological analogy is bolstered by the harmonisation of the polyphonic voice register, coupled with the ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2013)The argument begins by claiming that the phrase, ‘a clear lucid stream of everywhereness,’ taken from Ben Okri’s The landscapes within, at once encapsulates the postmodern theories of complexity and relativity and evokes ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2012)Drawing on Ben Okri’s A Time for New Dreams (2011) and Wole Soyinka’s Myth, Literature and the African World ([1976]1995), this article adopts a literary aesthetics approach, explaining that mythic conjunctions are ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (UNISA Press, 2019-10)Ben Okri does not seem to see African art in terms of “magic,” yet he constructs a magic/science/myth poetics in The Mystery Feast (2015) and The Magic Lamp (2017). In these two texts, intuitive creativity and the magic ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2014-12)This article begins with a brief discussion of the three terms: the poet, ontopoiesis and eco-phenomenology or phenomenological ecology. An explication of its thrust, viz. the significance of sowing/sewing ‘a quilt of ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-06-14)This article illustrates the theme of the poetic in Ben Okri’s stokus from his Tales of freedom. It does this principally through an exploration of this new literary mode and its use of serendipity. As a sudden insight, ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2017)Ben Okri’s ‘The Comic Destiny’ from Tales of Freedom (2009. London: Random House) is a sobering modern fable that represents a new form of dialogue within the context of dispossession, slavery (in its broadest terms) and ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2018)Drawing on A Way of Being Free (1997) and A Time for New Dreams (2011) among other Okrian texts, this article is a discussion of the notion of redreaming ways of seeing through intuitive creativity. The argument is divided ...
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Gray, Rosemary A. (Indiana University Press, 2013-01)The article begins by contextualizing Ben Okri’s concept of reality within a traditional, cultural framework. A brief discussion of the trajectory of African writing and the standard classifications of the mode of the ...
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