258 Pages
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Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Chapter 1 Seeing with a Third Eye; Chapter 2 ‘Sacred Names into Profane Spaces’; Chapter 3 An Endless Forest of Terrible Creatures; Chapter 4 ‘Out of the Centre of My Forehead, an Eye Opened’; Chapter 5 ‘The Plantation Blood in his Veins’; Chapter 6 Intermediate Magic and the Fiction Of B.Kojo Laing; Chapter 7 ‘Old Gods, New Worlds’;
Biography
Brenda Cooper is a Professor in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her previous book, To Lay These Secrets Open, 1992, debates the criteria for the evaluation of African fiction. She has also produced resources on the teaching of African literature in schools and colleges. These include Modern African Writing 1984, Debates, Dilemmas and Dreams 1992 and Nations: Stories of the World for Africa 1995.
