Narrative shape-shifting : myth, humor, & history in the fiction of Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing & Yvonne Vera /

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 inform...

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Main Author: Elder, Arlene A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: writing as ase
  • Ben Okri's narrative cycle: shape-shifting on the page
  • B. Kojo Laing's linguistic journeying
  • Yvonne Vera & the womanist claims of history
  • Concluding and ...
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