This book 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 and Nollywood, it examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern
This book 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 and Nollywood, it examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern
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.
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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
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
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