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Magical realism in West African fiction

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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 those working on African literature, magical realism, or postcoloniality.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
250

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Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing With A Third Eye (Postcolonial Literatures)
May 7, 2004, Routledge
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Magical Realism in West African Fiction
2004, Taylor & Francis Group Plc
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;, 1

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9344 .C66 1998, PR9344.C66 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 250 p. ;
Number of pages
250

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL688031M
Internet Archive
magicalrealismwe00coop
ISBN 10
0415182395
LCCN
97035008
OCLC/WorldCat
37625567
Library Thing
2599922
Goodreads
214023

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But there is also a third space of another kind, a theoretical position that might be called a 'reconstituted Marxism'; a middle ground, between Marxism and post-modernist theory.
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