Douglas McCabe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5604063 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Douglas McCabe |
| NOMBRES | Douglas |
| APELLIDO | McCabe |
| FIRMA | MCCABE D |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Doug McCabe's Response to Esther de Bruijn's Essay
Doug McCabe’s Response to Esther de Bruijn’s Essay Douglas McCabe My essay on New Age spirituality in The Famished Road derives from my doctoral dissertation, "'Born-To-Die': The History and Politics of Abiku and Ogbanje in Nigerian Literature," where it appears as one of two chapters focused on the novel. The other chapter explores additional discourses of spirituality that Okri's text is shaped by and in dialogue with, from social Darwinist acc…
Higher Realities
The vast majority of critical commentary on Ben Okri's The Famished Road views the text as both postmodern and postcolonial.1 For instance, it is common to read that "[i]n Okri, the Western [postmodern] dilemma of the dissolution of the subject is celebrated" (Hawley 36), and that the abiku boy Azaro's puzzling ontological status signifies "the postcolonial nation state in its chaotic passage from colonialism to independence" (Wright 16). One cri…
Histories of Errancy
The corpus of written Nigerian literature contains at least thirty works in which àbíkú or ògbánje play some sort of pivotal role. 1 Most are in English, and among them are canonical texts by Tutuola, Achebe, Soyinka, Clark-Bekederemo, Emecheta, and Okri. These àbíkú writings constitute a major tradition within Nigerian literature, so it is surprising that no study has been done which reads them together and orders them historically as such. Inde…
Higher Realities
The vast majority of critical commentary on Ben Okri's The Famished Road views the text as both postmodern and postcolonial.1 For instance, it is common to read that "[i]n Okri, the Western [postmodern] dilemma of the dissolution of the subject is celebrated" (Hawley 36), and that the abiku boy Azaro's puzzling ontological status signifies "the postcolonial nation state in its chaotic passage from colonialism to independence" (Wright 16). One cri…
Histories of Errancy
The corpus of written Nigerian literature contains at least thirty works in which àbíkú or ògbánje play some sort of pivotal role. 1 Most are in English, and among them are canonical texts by Tutuola, Achebe, Soyinka, Clark-Bekederemo, Emecheta, and Okri. These àbíkú writings constitute a major tradition within Nigerian literature, so it is surprising that no study has been done which reads them together and orders them historically as such. Inde…
Histories of Errancy
The corpus of written Nigerian literature contains at least thirty works in which àbíkú or ògbánje play some sort of pivotal role. 1 Most are in English, and among them are canonical texts by Tutuola, Achebe, Soyinka, Clark-Bekederemo, Emecheta, and Okri. These àbíkú writings constitute a major tradition within Nigerian literature, so it is surprising that no study has been done which reads them together and orders them historically as such. Inde…
Higher Realities
The vast majority of critical commentary on Ben Okri's The Famished Road views the text as both postmodern and postcolonial.1 For instance, it is common to read that "[i]n Okri, the Western [postmodern] dilemma of the dissolution of the subject is celebrated" (Hawley 36), and that the abiku boy Azaro's puzzling ontological status signifies "the postcolonial nation state in its chaotic passage from colonialism to independence" (Wright 16). One cri…
Doug McCabe's Response to Esther de Bruijn's Essay
Doug McCabe’s Response to Esther de Bruijn’s Essay Douglas McCabe My essay on New Age spirituality in The Famished Road derives from my doctoral dissertation, "'Born-To-Die': The History and Politics of Abiku and Ogbanje in Nigerian Literature," where it appears as one of two chapters focused on the novel. The other chapter explores additional discourses of spirituality that Okri's text is shaped by and in dialogue with, from social Darwinist acc…
Art (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 obras) · Sociology (2 obras) · Spirituality (2 obras) · Aesthetics (1 obras) · African history and culture studies (1 obras) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 obras) · Anthropology (1 obras)