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Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, 1)

Name: Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, 1)
ISBN: 9780415245722

Brenda Cooper

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This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre in a West African context, and in relation to: * a range of global expressions of magical realism, from the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez to that of Salman Rushdie * wider contemporary trends in African writing, with particular attention to how the realism of authors such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka has been connected with nationalist agendas. This is a fascinating and important work for all those working on African literature, magical realism, or postcoloniality.

Catégories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

Année:

1998

Edition:

Langue:

english

Pages:

260

ISBN 10:

0415245729

ISBN 13: