The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema: A Poetics of Laughter

ISBN-13: 9780367874483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 148 str.

Maik Nwosu

Opis

This book significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema and Nollywood, it examines the often-neglected aesthetics of the African comic imagination. In modern

Spis treści

Introduction: Exploring the African Comic Imagination  1. The Flaming Masquerade and Comic Simplicitas  2. The Wilderness Paradox and Comic Magnitude  3. Dramatic Poetry and Comic Synthesis  4. Nollywood Cinema and the Semiotics of Laughter  Conclusion: Renewing the Poetics of Laughter

O autorze

Maik Nwosu is an associate professor of English at the University of Denver, Colorado. An award-winning novelist, poet, and journalist, Nwosu has also published Markets of Memories: Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational and coedited The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo.