Poetics of the fantastic in the Anglophone African novel

ISBN-13: 9786204266060 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str.

Pape Mawade Sylla

Opis

It is of technical writing in terms of form, aesthetics, poetics, as well as content that this essay attempts to trace the breadcrumb trail in Anglophone African and Nigerian literature in particular, notably with Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" (1958), Elechi Amadi's "The Concubine" (1966). After discussing the village as a setting for poetic expression in Things Fall Apart, this paper examines the frenetic narrative with a fantastic backdrop that Achebe perfectly depicts. Finally, this paper explores the dramatic plot which is merely a literary technical device that Elechi Amadi uses to bring out the aesthetics of the poetics of fantasy in her work "The Concubine".

O autorze

Sylla, Pape MawadePape Mawade Sylla was born in 1981 in Podor (Senegal) and holds a doctorate in English, specializing in English literature, British and Commonwealth studies from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. In service at the Cem Manguiers of Dakar as an English teacher, he also teaches at MIT university of Dakar and at the Centre de Perfectionnement en Langue Anglais.