Fiction and the Incompleteness of History: Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri.(Book review)

Publication: Research in African Literatures

Publication Date: 22-JUN-08

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Fiction and the Incompleteness of History:

Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri

BY ZHU YING

Bern: Peter Lang, 2006.

160pp. ISBN 3-03910-746-1

Zhu Ying's study is, in her own words, a reading of "Morrison, Naipaul and Okri in terms of their historical projects in fiction" (107). It looks closely at Morrison's Beloved, two of Naipaul's works, The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World, and Okri's The Famished Road, in order to explore the suggestive "interspace" (149, her emphasis) between history and fiction. Crucial to her project is that the particular history that these writers...

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