Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye

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Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye

Brenda Cooper

(Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 1)

Routledge, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Chapter 1 Seeing with a Third Eye
  • Chapter 2 'Sacred Names into Profane Spaces'
  • Chapter 3 An Endless Forest of Terrible Creatures
  • Chapter 4 'Out of the Centre of My Forehead, an Eye Opened'
  • Chapter 5 'The Plantation Blood in his Veins'
  • Chapter 6 Intermediate Magic and the Fiction Of B.Kojo Laing
  • Chapter 7 'Old Gods, New Worlds'

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