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The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema

The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema

Maik Nwosu

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2016
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Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9781138942660

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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 African literature the pertinent styles range from comic simplicitas to comic magnitude with the facilitation of language, characterization, and plot by a poetics of laughter or lightness as an important aspect of style. The African comic imagination variously reflects, across genres, both the festival character of comedy and its pedagogical value.

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