Fertile crossings: metamorphoses of genre in anglophone West African literature
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2002
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| adam_text | Fertile Crossings
Metamorphoses of Genre
in Anglophone West African Literature
Pietro Deandrea
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION: METAMORPHOSES OF GENRE xiii
PROSE: THE POETICIZED NOVEL
1 Orality and the Novels of the First Generations 3
Amos Tutuola: The folktale revisited | 5
AyiKwei Armahs griotization of the novel | 8
Ama Ata Aidoo s storytelling squint | 16
Kofi Awoonor s novelistic dirges | 23
2 The Rise of West African Magical Realism 29
Syl Cheney-Cokers Creole perspective | 37
Ben Okri: The abiku s double vision | 47
Breaking fresh ground: Kojo Laing s Search Sweet Country | 71
3 Beyond Magical Realism 81
An etherized invisibility: Ben Okri s Astonishing the Cods 82
Kojo Laing s folktale realism | 92
POETRY: BETWEEN PAGE AND STAGE
4 Individual Voices 113
Atukwei Okai and the resurgence of the voice | 116
Kofi Anyidoho and his contemporary dirges | 135
Kobena Eyi Acquah and the Living Echoes | 152
5 Orality and Performance 163
Poetry performances: A possible precursor | 163
Poetry performances into the 1990s | 165
The language of orality in Kojo Laing,
Abena Pokua Adompim Busia and Kwabena Osei-Boahene | 168
DRAMA: FROM A DIFFERENT DIMENSION
6 The Paths of the Pioneers 183
The ancestral pool | 185
The pull towards the popular, and the language question | 197
Acting spaces | 205
Generic contaminations: The case of Sutherland s Foriwa | 208
Unresolved questions | 211
7 Mohammed ben Abdallah s Search for an African Theatre 221
The Trial ofMallam llya and other plays (1987) | 221
The Fall of Kumbi and other plays (1989) | 242
Land of a Million Magicians (1993) | 256
CONCLUSION: HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVES 267
BIBLIOGRAPHY 273
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