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Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye / Brenda Cooper.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Brenda.
- Series:
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 1.
- Routledge research in post-colonial studies ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945---Criticism and interpretation.
- Cheney-Coker, Syl.
- Laing, B. Kojo--Criticism and interpretation.
- Laing, B. Kojo.
- Okri, Ben--Criticism and interpretation.
- Okri, Ben.
- West African fiction (English)--History and criticism.
- West African fiction (English).
- Magic realism (Literature).
- Africa, West--In literature.
- Africa, West.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-67378-7
- 1-280-31899-6
- 9786610318995
- 0-203-45139-2
- 0-415-24572-9
- 9780203451397
- OCLC:
- 304139516
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