Poetics of the fantastic in the Anglophone African novel

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".

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Pape Mawade Sylla né en 1981 à Podor (Senegal) est docteur en Anglais, spécialité littérature anglaise,études britanniques et du Commonwealth à l'université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. En service au cem Manguiers de Dakar en qualité de professeur d'anglais , enseigne aussi à MIT university de Dakar et au Centre de Perfectionnement en Langue anglaise