Brenda Cooper

Magical Realism in West African Fiction (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134673797
• Artikelnr.: 38252809

Autorenporträt

Brenda Cooper is Associate 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 produced resources for teaching African literature in schools and colleges, including Modern African Writing (1984), Debates, Dilemmas and Dreams (1992), and Nations: Stones of the World for Africa (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

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'