Beschreibung:
This book focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker, Ben Okri and Kojo Laing and contextualizes their fiction within current debate.
Chapter 1 Seeing with a Third Eye; Chapter 2 'Sacred Names into Profane Spaces'; Chapter 3 An Endless Forest of Terrible Creatures; Chapter 4 'Out of the Centre of My Forehead, an Eye Opened'; Chapter 5 'The Plantation Blood in his Veins'; Chapter 6 Intermediate Magic and the Fiction Of B.Kojo Laing; Chapter 7 'Old Gods, New Worlds';