My-House-Without-A-Door-An-Egg”: Reading an African Perspective of the Chronotope in Selected Works of Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri and Alain Mabanckou

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dc.date.accessioned2021-04-27T07:37:48Z
dc.date.available2021-04-27T07:37:48Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionAn Article Published in Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that the fusion of time and space in the African literary world portrayed in Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Alain Mabanckou’s Broken Glass thickens and becomes visible to the interpretative reader through the riddle and the narrative world(s) that it structures out. Noteworthy, the respected Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin conceptualises the literary chronotope (creative fusion of time and space in the novel) as a trope for investigating the working of time and space in the European novel. However, this theory of time and space has buttressed the critical analysis of the African novel, though mostly without incorporating the African perspective, especially the important riddle-narrative trope. Nonetheless, the critical reading of the selected African novels of Tutuola, Okri and Mabanckou in this paper indicates that perhaps the riddle is at the heart of the working of time and space in the African literary imagination, particularly in African novels that address themselves to the continuities of European colonialism. The paper employs qualitative textual techniques for selecting sources of data as well as the critical processes of interpretation and analysis.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWachira, I., Muhia, M., & Kaigai, K. (2021). “My-house-without-a-door-an-egg”: Reading an African perspective of the chronotope in selected works of Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri and Alain Mabanckou. Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(1). Retrieved from https://royalliteglobal.com/njhs/article/view/560en_US
dc.identifier.issn2523-0948
dc.identifier.issn2520-4009
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/22022
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyallite Globalen_US
dc.subjectAfrican literary imaginaryen_US
dc.subjectChronotopeen_US
dc.subjectMabanckouen_US
dc.subjectOkrien_US
dc.subjectRiddleen_US
dc.subjectTutuolaen_US
dc.titleMy-House-Without-A-Door-An-Egg”: Reading an African Perspective of the Chronotope in Selected Works of Amos Tutuola, Ben Okri and Alain Mabanckouen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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