Maik Nwosu

The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

A Poetics of Laughter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 African literature the pertinent styles range from comic simplicitas to comic magnitude with the facilitation of language, characterization, and plot by a poetics of laughter or lightness as an important aspect of style. The African comic imagination variously reflects, across genres, both the festival character of comedy and its pedagogical value.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317374916
• Artikelnr.: 44773564

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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