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How does "Dangerous Love" combine social realism with fantasy in order to explore Post-colonial experience of Nigerian youth?
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... Q 7) DANGEROUS LOVE Q) How does "Dangerous Love" combine social realism with fantasy in order to explore Post-colonial experience of Nigerian youth? "I was walking through a dark forest when it happened. The trees turned into mist. And when I looked back I saw the dead girl. .........She didn't have a nose or mouth..........She followed me everywhere I went." - Extract from a Notebook(Dangerous Love) Ben Okri started to write as a realist with post-colonial themes. Being a magic realist, he resorts to fantasy, dream visions and illusions and more, inventing and creating in his novel rather than simply recording events or facts. This leading figure of the Nigerian writers brings together the modernist strategies and Nigerian literary tradition in his works. Okri's "Dangerous Love" is a captivating novel that presents to the readers an epic of daily life. Revolving around the life of an artist and his doomed love, interwoven in this
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