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Go West, Young Men: Conspicuous consumption in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, as prefigured by V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
- Transition
- Indiana University Press
- Issue 100, 2009
- pp. 134-151
- Article
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Abstract
The broken promises of capitalism have been explored recently in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, a work with antecedents in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River. Dayo Olopade looks closely at these incisive yet literary critiques of conspicuous consumption.
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