TY  - GEN
T1  - Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye
T2  - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
A1  - Cooper, Brenda
LA  - English
PP  - London ; New York
PB  - Routledge
YR  - 1998
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45732597
AB  - 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.
OP  - 250
CN  - PR9344 .C66 1998eb
SN  - 0415245729
SN  - 9780415245722
SN  - 0203451392
SN  - 9780203451397
SN  - 020375963X
SN  - 9780203759639
SN  - 9786610318995
SN  - 6610318999
SN  - 9780415340618
SN  - 0415340616
SN  - 0415182395
SN  - 9780415182393
KW  - Cheney-Coker, Syl, : 1945- : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Laing, B. Kojo : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Okri, Ben : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Cheney-Coker, Syl, : 1945-
KW  - Laing, B. Kojo
KW  - Okri, Ben
KW  - West African fiction (English) : History and criticism.
KW  - Postcolonialism : Africa, West.
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature.
KW  - Africa, West : In literature.
KW  - Magic realism (Literature)
KW  - Roman ouest-africain (anglais) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Postcolonialisme : Afrique occidentale.
KW  - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Afrique occidentale : Dans la littérature.
KW  - Réalisme magique (Littérature)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Literature
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - West African fiction (English)
KW  - West Africa
KW  - Fictie.
KW  - Engels.
KW  - Magisch realisme.
KW  - West-Afrika.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -