Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Col·lecció: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=40480 |
| Sumari: | 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 an. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415245729 9780415245722 0203451392 9780203451397 020375963X 9780203759639 9786610318995 6610318999 9780415340618 0415340616 0415182395 9780415182393 |