Deandrea, Pietro. <br/><br/>
Fertile crossings :  metamorphoses of genre in Anglophone West African literature / 
Pietro Deandrea. 
 - Amsterdam ;  New York :  Rodopi,  2002. 
 - xix, 293 pages ;  23 cm. 
 - Cross-Cultures : readings in the post-colonial literatures in English ;  53,  0924-1426 .
 - Cross/cultures ;  53. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292). 
<br/><br/>Prose: the poeticized novel--Orality and the novels of the first generations : Amos Tutuola: the folktale revisited -- Ayi Kwei Armah's griotization of the novel -- Ama Ata Aidoo's storytelling squint -- Kofi Awoonor's novelistic dirges. The rise of West African magical realism : Syl Cheney--Coker's Creole perspective -- Ben Okri: the abiku's double vision -- Breaking fresh ground: Kojo Laing's Search sweet country. Beyond magical realism : An etherized invisibility: Ben Okri's Astonishing the gods -- Kojo Laing's folktale realism. Poetry: between page and stage--Individual voices : Atukwei Okai and the resurgence of the voice -- Kofi Anyuidoho and his contemporary dirges. Kobena Eyi Acquah and the living echoes. Orality and performance : Poetry performances: a possible precursor -- Poetry performances into the 1990s -- The language of orality in Kojo Laing, Abena Pokua, Adompim Busia and Kwabena Osei-Boahene. Drama: from a different dimension--The paths of the pioneers : The ancestral pool -- The pull towards the popular, and the language question -- Acting spaces -- Generic contaminations: the case of Sutherland's Foriwa -- Unresolved questions. Mohammed ben Abdallah's search for an African theatre : The trial of Mallam Ilya and other plays (1987) -- The fall of Kumbi and other plays (1989) -- Land of a million magicians (1993). Holistic perspectives. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9042014687 9789042014688 9042014784 9789042014787 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>B0220863  bccb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>West African literature (English)--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>West African poetry (English)--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>West African drama (English)--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>West African drama (English)<br/>West African literature (English)<br/>West African poetry (English)<br/>Englisch.<br/>Literatur.<br/>Literatur.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Anglophones Afrika.<br/>Westafrika.<br/>Anglophones Afrika.<br/>Westafrika.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR9340  / .D43 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>820.9/966