A Feminist Misreading of Two Magic Realist Novels. Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow

      Аннотация: This book interrogates the representation of national failure in Africa in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow.It invites readers to read these narratives of national failure with a new critical insight in order to unmask the gender nuisances that may otherwise go unnoticed. It therefore challenges the reader to leave the comfort zone of traditional reading to a "misreading". The book argues that the satirisation of national failure that the two narratives employ using magic realism are very much gendered. While magic realism is a powerful tool in the hands of the authors in representing the selfish ogres of the postcolonial state in Africa, it lands the trap of making the ogres female.

Ключевые слова: feminist, Novels, Magic Realist, Misreading