Magical Realism in West African Fiction Seeing with a Third Eye

Name: Magical Realism in West African Fiction Seeing with a Third Eye
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ISBN: 9780415245722

ISBN-10: 0415245729

ISBN-13: 9780415245722

Edition: 2004

Authors: Brenda Cooper

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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…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Seeing with a Third Eye



'sacred Names into Profane Spaces'



An Endless Forest of Terrible Creatures



'out of the Centre of My Forehead, an Eye Opened'



'the Plantation Blood in His Veins'



Intermediate Magic and the Fiction of B.Kojo Laing



'old Gods, New Worlds'


Notes


Bibliography


Index