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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, Brenda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Colección:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.