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.
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.
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.
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 ;
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 ;
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