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

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Author

Cooper, Brenda.

Title

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

ISBN

0203451392

020375963X

0415245729

0415340616

6610318999

9780203451397

9780203759639

9780415245722

9780415340618

9786610318995

0415182395

0415340616

9780415182393

Published

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Physical Description

1 online resource (viii, 250 pages)

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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.

Variant and related titles

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Other formats

Print version: Cooper, Brenda. Magical realism in West African fiction. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

Format

Books / Online

Language

English

Added to Catalog

August 07, 2024

Series

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 1.