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
（Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 1）
Routledge, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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