Magical Realism in West African Fiction Seeing With a Third Eye
✍ Scribed by Cooper, Brenda.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis (CAM);Routledge
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780415182393
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This book focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker, Ben Okri and Kojo Laing and contextualizes their fiction within current debate.;Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Seeing with a third eye; 'Sacred names into profane spaces': magical realism; An endless forest of terrible creatures: magical realism in West Africa; 'Out of the centre of my forehead, an eye opened': Ben Okri's The Famished Road; 'The plantation blood in his veins': Syl Cheney-Coker and The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar; Intermediate magic and the fiction of B. Kojo Laing; 'Old Gods, New Worlds': some conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.