Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g
Literary and Dramatic Explorations
Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in African Literature
ISBN: 978-1-032-61373-4
Verlag: Routledge
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres across the continent.
The chapters in this book constitute a sustained and insightful reflection on the salient components of this literary genre as well as evaluating its connections to themes of conflict, violence, women’s rights, trauma, oppression, culture, governance, and connecting to the African self. As well as theorizing magical realism, this book engages with African expressive performance across various formats, novels, plays, and films. This book investigates African magical realism from its origins up to the present day, where local oral traditions link indigenous cosmogonic stories with Western literature, as well as with the specific narrative traditions of Arabo-Islamic literature. The rich analysis draws on works from across the continent, including Egypt, Sudan, Mauritania, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, and Mozambique.
This book is a timely contribution to debates within African literature, cultural anthropology, ethnography, and folklore.
Zielgruppe
Academic and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: Retracing Magical Realism 1. Worldview, Traditions, and Trends in African Magical Realism 2. Narrating the War and Its Aftermath: Perceptions of Liminality in Mia Couto’s Terra Sonâmbula and José Eduardo Agualusa’s Barroco Tropical 3. Behind the Magical Veil: Interrogating Cameroon’s Politics and History in Bole Butake’s Lake God 4. Magical Realism in Modern Swahili Literature 5. Female Plight and Magical Realism: A Study of Rebeka Njau’s The Sacred Seed and Okwiri Oduor’s Things They Lost 6. The Local Roots of Magical Realism in Sudanese Fiction 7. African Magical Realism Goes Visual: Two Short Films from African Folktales Reimagined (Netflix-UNESCO, 2023) 8. The Return of the Repressed: Magical Realism in Salwa Bakr’s The Golden Chariot and Ibrahim Al-Koni’s The Bleeding of the Stone