Información General

• Autores: Sarali Gintsburg (coord.), Kenneth Usongo (coord.)
• Editores: Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
• Año de publicación: 2024
• Colecciones: Routledge Studies in African Literature
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781032613758, 9781032613734
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Resumen

• 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.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction: Retracing Magical Realism

    Kenneth Usongo, Sarali Gintsburg

    págs. 1-8

    

  • Worldview, Traditions, and Trends in African Magical Realism

    Théophile Ambadiang

    págs. 9-34

    

  • Narrating the War and Its Aftermath: Perceptions of Liminality in Mia Couto's Terra Sonâmbula and José Eduardo Agualusa's Barroco Tropical

    Jessica Falconi, Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues

    págs. 35-55

    

  • Behind the Magical Veil: Interrogating Cameroon's Politics and History in Bole Butake's Lake God

    Kenneth Usongo

    págs. 56-77

    

  • Magical Realism in Modern Swahili Literature

    Mikhail Gromov

    págs. 78-97

    

  • Female Plight and Magical Realism: A Study of Rebeka Njau's The Sacred Seed and Okwiri Oduor's Things They Lost

    Alina N. Rinkanya

    págs. 98-118

    

  • The Local Roots of Magical Realism in Sudanese Fiction

    Xavier Luffin

    págs. 119-139

    

  • African Magical Realism Goes Visual: Two Short Films from African Folktales Reimagined (Netflix-UNESCO, 2023)

    Sarali Gintsburg

    págs. 140-155

    

  • The Return of the Repressed: Magical Realism in Salwa Bakr's The Golden Chariot and Ibrahim Al-Koni's The Bleeding of the Stone

    Abida Younas, Kawthar Yasser N Al Othman

    págs. 156-178