Representations of Africa in Ben Okri's and Alexander McCall Smith's Works
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2023
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Ovidius University
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This presentation explores the representation of Africa in different novels by two different writers. The novels belong to late 20th and early 21st-century British fiction set in Africa. The two writers have different backgrounds in many ways except for their engagement, love and complicated relationship with the African continent. I argue that the representation by these writers reveals the meaning and significance of Africa in a postcolonial context as a space of nostalgia, loss, and eventually, hope in contemporary British fiction. © 2023 Ovidius University. All rights reserved.
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British fiction, hope, nostalgia, postcolonialism, representations of Africa
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Analele Universitatii Ovidius Constanta, Seria Filologie
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33
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2
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3
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10