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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| Hōputu: | Licensed eBooks |
| Reo: | Ingarihi |
| I whakaputaina: |
London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Rangatū: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;
1. |
| Urunga tuihono: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=40480 |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- Seeing with a third eye
- 'Sacred names into profane spaces' : magical realism
- An endless forest of terrible creatures : magical realism in West Africa
- 'Out of the centre of my forehead, an eye opened' : Ben Okri's The famished road
- 'The plantation blood in his veins' : Syl Cheney-Coker and The last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
- Intermediate magic and the fiction of B. Kojo Laing
- 'Old Gods, new worlds' : some conclusions.