TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deandrea,Pietro
TI  - Fertile crossings: metamorphoses of genre in Anglophone West African literature 
T2  - Cross-Cultures : readings in the post-colonial literatures in English
SN  - 9042014687
AV  - PR9340 .D43 2002
U1  - 820.9/966 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - West African literature (English)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - West African poetry (English)
KW  - West African drama (English)
KW  - fast
KW  - Englisch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Literatur
KW  - swd
KW  - Anglophones Afrika
KW  - Westafrika
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292); 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; Also issued online
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