ISBN: 9781846157479

Responding to many of the same neo-colonial concerns as earlier African writers, Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera bring contemporary, hybrid voices to their novels that explore spi… More...

Responding to many of the same neo-colonial concerns as earlier African writers, Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera bring contemporary, hybrid voices to their novels that explore spiritual, cultural and feminist solutions to Africa's complex post-independence dilemmas. Their work is informed by both African and western traditions, especially the influences of traditional oral storytelling and post-modern fictional experimentation. Yet each is unique: Ben Okri is a religious writer steeped in the metaphysical complexities of a traditional symbiosis of physical and spiritual co-existence; B. Kojo Laing's humor grounds itself in linguistic play and outrageous characterization; Yvonne Vera translates her eco-feminist hope in political and social transformation with a focus on the developing political actions of Zimbabwean women. All three reflect on the colonial and post-independence turmoil in their respective countries of birth - Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe. Together, they represent the evolution of a brilliant contemporary generation of post-independence voices. ARLENE A. ELDER is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of The Hindered Hand: Cultural Implications of Nineteenth-Century African-American Fiction and has published essays and articles on African, African-American, Native-American and Australian Aboriginal literatures and orature. Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera James Currey African Literary Collections 9781847010124 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Literature, Boydell & Brewer<

2009, ISBN: 9781846157479

Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: Boydell & Brewer], [ED: 1], Boydell & Brewer, 2009

ISBN: 9781846157479

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2009, ISBN: 9781846157479

Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), [PU: Boydell & Brewer], Boydell & Brewer, 2009

2009, ISBN: 9781846157479

Myth, Humor and History in the Fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera, [ED: 1], eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: Boydell & Brewer]