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Examples Of Magical Realism In The Famished Road

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Okri’s story ‘The Famished Road’ includes several features of magical realism. Precisely, instances of hybridity happen often. The character Azaro wrongly believes a character by the river to be the ferry man of the dead, he acquires that she is in fact a hybrid woman, young in body but ‘with an old woman’s face’. The illustration is also a hybrid of ancient custom and ritual. Also, The Famished Road portrays the theme of political corruption and political struggle. The character Madame Koto is implied in the corruption of modern Nigerian politics. She summarizes the new power herself, rather than its transgression, foreshadowing the country’s Civil War to come. Okri has also used ironic distance in this novel..
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