Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye / Brenda Cooper.
by
Cooper, Brenda.
ISBN
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9780415245722
9780203451397
9780203759639
Title
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Magical realism in West African fiction : seeing with a third eye / Brenda Cooper.
Author
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Cooper, Brenda.
Personal Author
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Cooper, Brenda.
Publication Information
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (viii, 250 pages).
Series
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 1
Contents
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Seeing with a third eye -- 'Sacred names into profane spaces' : magical realism -- An endless forest of terrible creatures : magical realism in West Africa -- 'Out of the centre of my forehead, an eye opened' : Ben Okri's The famished road -- 'The plantation blood in his veins' : Syl Cheney-Coker and The last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar -- Intermediate magic and the fiction of B. Kojo Laing -- 'Old Gods, new worlds' : some conclusions.
Local Note
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eBooks on EBSCOhost
Personal Subject
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Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945--Criticism and interpretation.
Laing, B. Kojo-Criticism and interpretation.
Okri, Ben-Criticism and interpretation.
Cheney-Coker, Syl-Criticism and interpretation.
Laing, B. Kojo, 1946--Criticism and interpretation.
Subject Term
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West African fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
Postcolonialism -- Africa, West.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Magic realism (Literature)
Geographic Term
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Africa, West -- In literature.
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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1998
Publication Information
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
| Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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| 823 21 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |