Screen LibraryThe comic imagination in modern African literature and cinema : a poetics of laughter /
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Routlege,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;
62 |
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| Carrier Form: | 147 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-139) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138942660 1138942669 |
| Index Number: | PR9340 |
| CLC: | I400.65 |
| Call Number: | I400.65/N992 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Exploring the African Comic Imagination -- The Flaming Masquerade and Comic Simplicitas -- The Wilderness Paradox and Comic Magnitude -- Dramatic Poetry and Comic Synthesis -- Nollywood Cinema and the Semiotics of Laughter -- Conclusion: Renewing the Poetics of Laughter. |