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Farah (nuruddin) --- Laing (kojo)

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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.

African fiction (English) --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- English fiction --- African literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Okri, Ben --- Laing, B. Kojo --- Vera, Yvonne --- Laing, Kojo --- Okri, Benjamin --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- African Literature. --- B. Kojo Laing. --- Ben Okri. --- Colonialism. --- Cultural Traditions. --- Culture. --- Feminism. --- Global Vision. --- Narrative Shape-Shifting. --- Post-Colonial Dilemmas. --- Post-Independence. --- Spirituality. --- Yvonne Vera.

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The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves itself into the supernatural an indication that the whole literary project of 'magical realism' is an instrumental and representational form which can be regarded as particularly suitable for reconciling dichotomies and oppositions otherwise experienced as intolerable? Was 'magical realism' an explosive process in cultural dynamics, taking place at intersections of heterogeneous cultures most favourable to the efflorescence of this type of literature? The authors of the various essays - on Patrick White and David Malouf, Ben Okri, Syl Cheney-Coker, Robert Kroetsch, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Jack Hodgins, Salman Rushdie, Janet Frame, Wilson Harris and others - provide a dynamic focus on the reality at stake beneath the surface representations of 'magical realism' in post-colonial literatures.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- English literature --- Decolonization in literature --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Réalisme magique (Littérature) --- Littérature anglaise --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- 820 <100> --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Réalisme magique (Littérature) --- Littérature anglaise --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- Kroetsch, Robert Paul --- Malouf, David --- Okri, Ben --- Rushdie, Salman --- White, Patrick --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Congresses. --- Magic realism (Literature) - Congresses. --- English literature - Developing countries - History and criticism - Congresses. --- Decolonization in literature - Congresses. --- Magical realism (Literature) --- Fantasy fiction --- Surrealism --- Magic in literature --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Realism in literature --- Couto (mia) --- Frame (janet), 1924-2004 --- Hodgins (jack) --- Laing (kojo) --- Macewen (gwendolyn) --- Realisme magique (litterature) --- Rosenblatt (joe) --- Vladislavic (ivan)