Magical Realism in West African Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Realism in West African Fiction write by Brenda Cooper. This book was released on 2012-10-12. Magical Realism in West African Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre in a West African context, and in relation to: * a range of global expressions of magical realism, from the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez to that of Salman Rushdie * wider contemporary trends in African writing, with particular attention to how the realism of authors such as Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka has been connected with nationalist agendas. This is a fascinating and important work for all those working on African literature, magical realism, or postcoloniality.
The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel write by F. Abiola Irele. This book was released on 2009-07-23. The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel through an examination of the works that have either attained canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.
Magical Realism and Literature
Magical Realism and Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Realism and Literature write by Christopher Warnes. This book was released on 2020-11-12. Magical Realism and Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time.
The Theory of Flight
The Theory of Flight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theory of Flight write by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu. This book was released on 2021-01-12. The Theory of Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen Zula Nyoni - Genie - was seen to fly away on a giant pair of silver wings ..."
Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction
Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction write by Taner Can. This book was released on 2014-06-01. Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). The main focus of attention lies on the ways in which the novelists in question have exploited the potentials of magical realism to represent their hybrid cultural and national identities. To provide the necessary historical context for the discussion, the author first traces the development of magical realism from its origins in European Painting to its appropriation into literature by European and Latin American writers and explores the contested definitions of magical realism and the critical questions surrounding them. He then proceeds to analyze the relationship between the paradigmatic turn that took place in postcolonial literatures in the 1980s and the concomitant rise of magical realism as the literary expression of Third World countries.
