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

Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye / Brenda Cooper.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, Brenda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 1.
Subjects:
Cheney-Coker, Syl, > 1945- > Criticism and interpretation.
Laing, B. Kojo > Criticism and interpretation.
Okri, Ben > Criticism and interpretation.
Cheney-Coker, Syl, > 1945-
Laing, B. Kojo
Okri, Ben
West African fiction (English) > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism > Africa, West.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Magic realism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism in literature
West African fiction (English)
Fictie.
Engels.
Magisch realisme.
Africa, West > In literature.
West Africa
West-Afrika.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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