MAGICAL REALISM IN WEST AFRICAN FICTION by Brenda Cooper ( 9780415340618 )

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MAGICAL REALISM IN WEST AFRICAN FICTION
SEEING WITH A THIRD EYE

By:

Brenda Cooper

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0415340616

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

19 February, 2004

Series:

Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures v.1

Pages:

258

Description:

This book focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker, Ben Okri and Kojo Laing and contextualizes their fiction within current debate.

Synopsis:

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.

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