| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 1 |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 1.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Laing, B. Kojo -- Criticism and interpretation
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Okri, Ben -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945- |
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Laing, B. Kojo. |
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Okri, Ben. |
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West African fiction (English) -- History and criticism
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Postcolonialism -- Africa, West
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Magic realism (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Magic realism (Literature)
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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West African fiction (English)
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Fictie.
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Engels.
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Magisch realisme.
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Africa, West -- In literature
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West Africa.
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West-Afrika.
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| Genre/Form |
Magic realism (Literature)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0415245729 |
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9780415245722 |
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0203451392 |
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9780203451397 |
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020375963X |
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9780203759639 |
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9786610318995 |
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6610318999 |
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9780415340618 |
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0415340616 |
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