Fertile Crossings : : Metamorphoses of Genre in Anglophone West African Literature /

Fertile Crossings : : Metamorphoses of Genre in Anglophone West African Literature / / Pietro Deandrea.

In retracing some of the routes followed by West African literature in English over the course of the last three decades, this book employs an original multidimensional approach whereby the three main genres - narrative, poetry and drama - are considered in the light of their intricate web of fecund...

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Deandrea, Pietro,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, 2002.
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495, ; 53
Physical Description:1 online resource (293 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Metamorphoses of Genre
  • PROSE: THE POETICIZED NOVEL
  • 1 Orality and the Novels of the First Generations
  • 2 The Rise of West African Magical Realism
  • 3 Beyond Magical Realism
  • POETRY: BETWEEN PAGE AND STAGE
  • 4 Individual Voices
  • 5 Orality and Performance
  • DRAMA: FROM A DIFFERENT DIMENSION
  • 6 The Paths of the Pioneers
  • 7 Mohammed ben Abdallah's Search for an African Theatre
  • CONCLUSION: HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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