Africa's imagination has been dominated and overshadowed, informed by pressing social and political issues, and its fiction has reflected this in its commitment to social realism. However, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this tendency has been challenged by the rise to prominence of experimental fiction exhibiting postmodern and magical realist characteristics. ""After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism"" thoroughly examines this new fiction and its contribution to the liberation of Africa's imagination. It finds, perhaps ironically, that a liberated imagination provides a powerful tool for understanding, and perhaps even resolving, the complex issues of postcolonial Africa.
| ISBN: | 9781868144242 |
| Publication date: | 30th December 2005 |
| Author: | Gerald Gaylard |
| Publisher: | Wits University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 420 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Africa's imagination has been dominated and overshadowed, informed by pressing social and political issues, and its fiction has reflected this in its commitment to social realism. However, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this tendency has been challenged by the rise to prominence of experimental fiction exhibiting postmodern and magical realist characteristics. ""After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism"" thoroughly examines this new fiction and its contribution to the liberation of Africa's imagination. It finds, perhaps ironically, that a liberated imagination provides a powerful tool for understanding, and perhaps even resolving, the complex issues of postcolonial Africa.
After Colonialism features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
After Colonialism is available in Paperback
After Colonialism was written by Gerald Gaylard and published by Wits University Press
After Colonialism has 420 pages