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cjah-3796	Udeh Bryan J., Ijeoma Lena Osita,	RE-THINKING MAGIC REALISM AND POSTCOLONIALITY IN NGUGI WA THIONGO'S WIZARD OF THE CROW	2023	9	.pdf	application/pdf	6191	276	61	These writers weave, in an ever- shifting pattern, a sharply etched realism in representing ordinary events and details together with the fantastic and dreamlike elements, as well as with materials derived from myths and fairy tales Thus, like magical realism in Latin America, and partial response to it, African magical realism developed out of the first wave of postcolonial, indigenist novels inspired by traditional myths and oral narratives, such as The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola or The Forest of a thousand Demons by D.O. Fagunwa, and the nationalistically oriented fictions of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, but also indirectly fed on earlier surrealist impulses imbibed by Negritude poets such as Leopold Sedar Senghor (Cooper, 2004). Magical realism began in art history, having been coined by Franz Roh in 1925 to describe European paintings (Faris, 2014).For him, magical realism was presented as a reaction to expressionism's more abstract style and to mark a return to realism.	cache/cjah-3796.pdf	txt/cjah-3796.txt