Magical Realism in West African Fiction

By:

Brenda Cooper

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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This work focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana and contextualizes their fiction within current debates and theories around the "postcolonial" globally. Providing a thoughtful introduction to magical realism as a genre Cooper uses Cheney-Coker, Okri and Laing to discuss the particular and distinct intervention of magical realism in a West African context. She examines the narrative techniques of novels that mingle the dimensions of magic, myth and historical reality, and addresses their position in relation to the more explicitely nationalist agendas of the realism of Achebe and others.

Author 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.

Release date Australia

April 9th, 1998

Author

Brenda Cooper

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

258

Series

Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Dimensions

156x234x24

ISBN-13

9780415182393

Product ID

1862154

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