• R.Aparna
• Dr.K.Renukadevi

Nigerian Writing in English is young but though it is young many great works have been published. Achebe, Soyinka are the celebrated writers of the past. But following them Ben Okri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie entered the literary scene exploring the reality with myth and magic. Ben Okri, a booker prize winner treaded in the untrodden way to highlight on reality suppressing the anger and pain. The Famished Road Trilogy maps the political, social conditions of the Niger land. Dichotomy, dissidence in Okri enabled him to cloth the reality with Fantasy mode of writing. This paper focuses on the dichotomy and dissidence in Okri in his trilogy.

dichotomy, dissidence, trilogy, fantasy, spirit, abiku, reality

"Dichotomy and Dissidence in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.759-763, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906402.pdf

"Dichotomy and Dissidence in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp759-763, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906402.pdf