Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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Title
Magical realism in West African fiction.
International Standard Book Number
0415182395
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cheney-Coker, Syl,1945-Criticism and interpretation.
Laing, B. Kojo-- Criticism and interpretation.
Okri, Ben-- Criticism and interpretation.
Cheney-Coker, Syl,1945-
Laing, B. Kojo.
Okri, Ben.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Magic realism (Literature)
Postcolonialism-- Africa, West.
Postcolonialism in literature.
West African fiction (English)-- History and criticism.