1st Edition
The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema A Poetics of Laughter
By Maik Nwosu
Copyright 2016
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the direct-to-video Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood, the book examines the often-neglected aesthetics of... Read more
Introduction: Exploring the African Comic Imagination 1. The Flaming Masquerade and Comic Simplicitas 2. The Wilderness Paradox and Comic Magnitude 3. Dramatic Poetry and Comic Synthesis 4. Nollywood Cinema and the Semiotics of Laughter Conclusion: Renewing the Poetics of Laughter
Biography
Maik Nwosu is an associate professor of English at the University of Denver, Colorado. An award-winning novelist, poet, and journalist, Nwosu has also published Markets of Memories: Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational and coedited The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo.
