Browsing English by Subject "Ben Okri (1959-)"

Browsing English by Subject "Ben Okri (1959-)"

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  • Apprehending global civilisation in The Magic Lamp : giving the world a new literature 
    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 ...
  • Ben Okri’s aphorisms : “Music on the wings of a soaring bird” 
    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/ ...
  • Ben Okri’s generational protest poem, “The Incandescence of the Wind” 
    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: ...
  • Ben Okri’s wild (2012) : the muse of archaeology 
    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 ...
  • Ben Okri’s “Laughter beneath the bridge” : born (un)free 
    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 ...
  • Countering mind-forg’d manacles in Ben Okri’s The Freedom Artist (2019) 
    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 ...
  • Of Magic : Ben Okri’s The Mystery Feast and The Magic Lamp 
    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 ...
  • Phenomenological ecology in two occasional poems by Ben Okri 
    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 ...
  • Redreaming ways of seeing : Ben Okri’s intuitive creativity 
    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 ...