Magical realism in West African fiction :seeing with a third eye
- 作者: Cooper, Brenda.
- 出版: London ;New York : Routledge 2004.
- 稽核項: viii, 250 p. ;25 cm.
- 叢書名: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;1
- 標題: Okri, Ben , History and criticism. , Criticism and interpretation. , Magic realism (Literature) , Africa, West In literature. , Cheney-Coker, Syl 1945- Criticism and interpretation. , Postcolonialism Africa, West. , In literature. , Postcolonialism in literature. , Africa, West , Laing, B. Kojo Criticism and interpretation. , Okri, Ben Criticism and interpretation. , Laing, B. Kojo , West African fiction (English) , West African fiction (English) History and criticism. , Cheney-Coker, Syl , Postcolonialism
- ISBN: 0415182395 , 9780415182393
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.
- 系統號: 005016976
- 資料類型: 圖書
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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.
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