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Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye
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| Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Coursebooks, Fiction literature | 7 October 2008 |
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Product Description:
Magical Realism in West African Fiction 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, Brenda 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. |
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| Tags: realism, African, magical, fiction, Laing |
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Adventures in Realism by Matthew Beaumont
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| Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Other | 18 May 2008 |
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Adventures in Realism offers a scholarly yet accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Comprising 16 newly-commissioned essays written by a distinguished group of contributors, including Slavoj Žižek and Fredric Jameson, this wide-ranging work:
- • Provides the historical, cultural, intellectual, and literary contexts necessary to understand developments in realism
- • Addresses the artistic mediums and technologies such as painting and film that have helped shape the way we perceive reality
- • Explores literary and pictorial sub-genres such as naturalism and socialist realism.
Each section concludes with a short bibliography and a guide to further reading. |
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| Tags: realism, literary, Adventures, Realism, helped |
