Coming to terms with new ageist contamination: cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri's "The famished road"

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dc.contributor.authorde Bruijn, Esther
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-13T20:18:58Z
dc.date.available2018-06-13T20:18:58Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description“This journal article was published as de Bruijn, E. (2007). Coming to terms with new ageist contamination: Cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri's The famished road. Research in African Literatures, 38(4), 170-186. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or distributed in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photographic, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Indiana University Press. For education reuse, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center <http://www.copyright.com/>. For all other permissions, contact IU Press at <http://iupress.indiana.edu/rights/>.”en_US
dc.description.abstractThe paper refutes Douglas McCabe's essay "'Higher Realities': New Age Spirituality in Ben Okri's The Famished Road" for its injudicious attack on Okri as a New Ageist and "detraditionalizing perennialist" whose novel The Famished Road purportedly reinforces cultural imperialism and global capitalism. The paper reveals that McCabe's primary intention is to indict Okri for the latter's supposed misappropriation of the traditional abiku narrative and that McCabe's imputation of The Famished Road relies on evidence from without, rather than within, the novel itself. The paper goes on to consider Okri's suffusion of spirituality in the novel as a means of imparting an "enchanted" history. It suggests that notions of cosmopolitanism, in Anthony Kwame Appiah's sense, pervade the text and that characters like Dad and the Photographer can offer insight into individual attempts to manage the various, contesting ontological systems at play in an African culture.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationde Bruijn, E. (2007). Coming to terms with new ageist contamination: Cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri's "The famished road". Research in African Literatures, 38(4), 170-186.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5126
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherIndiana University Pressen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.subjectBen Okrien_US
dc.subjectDouglas McCabeen_US
dc.subjectAnthony Kwame Appiahen_US
dc.subjectNew Ageismen_US
dc.subjectNew Age spiritualityen_US
dc.subjectCultural imperialismen_US
dc.subjectGlobal capitalismen_US
dc.subjectAbikuen_US
dc.subjectFamisheden_US
dc.subject.lcshOkri, Ben--Criticism and interpretation
dc.subject.lcshCosmopolitanism
dc.subject.lcshNew Age movement
dc.titleComing to terms with new ageist contamination: cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri's "The famished road"en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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