Ben Okri’s “Laughter Beneath the Bridge”

As this prize-winning short story from Ben Okri’s “Incidents at the Shrine” is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, I shall begin by briefly contextualizing Biafra’s quest for freedom in the late 1960s. I shall attempt to reveal the ideological constructedness of both abstract and concrete...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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