Dangerous Love (novel)
Dangerous
Love is a 1996 novel by Ben
Okri set in Lagos of the 1970s. The novel is a reworking of an earlier book, The
Landscapes Within.[1][2] The book is more conventional and realist than Okri's
previous works.[3][4] The subject concerns love, corruption and memories of the Biafran
War in Nigeria.[5]
References
· Robert Ross, Colonial and Postcolonial
Fiction in English: An Anthology, 2013, p. 232 1136513361: "His latest
novel, Dangerous Love (1996), is a reworking of the earlier book The Landscapes
Within; again devoted to portraying the upheaval of Nigerian life, the
narrative also focuses on the role of the artist."
· · Philip Darby, Fiction
of Imperialism, 1998 0826420591, p. 161: "In his latest novel, Dangerous
Love, Ben Okri introduces the reader to some of the ugliness of life for the
poor in Lagos of the 1970s. Although the protagonist, Omovo, struggles
against...."
· · Jay
Parini, World Writers in English: R. K.
Narayan to Patrick White, 2004 0684312913, p. 461: "Critical
perception that Okri had moved too far away from the realism that had sustained
his lyrical and epic flights of imagination in his earlier works was put to
rest with the publication in 1996 of the novel Dangerous Love."
· · David Christopher, British
Culture: An Introduction, 2002, p. 52: "His later novel, Dangerous
Love (1996), is a more conventional, realist story of corruption in
Nigeria."
·
Toyin Falola, Hetty ter Haar, Narrating War
and Peace in Africa, 2010, p. 181, 1580463304: "The novel Dangerous
Love (1996) reconstitutes the Nigerian civil war through the memories of some
of the major characters, who experience its traumatic effects.6 Because of the
general violence of war and its aftereffects, Okri's writings..."
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