Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index
Seeing with a third eye -- 'Sacred names into profane spaces' : magical realism -- An endless forest of terrible creatures : magical realism in West Africa -- 'Out of the centre of my forehead, an eye opened' : Ben Okri's The famished road -- 'The plantation blood in his veins' : Syl Cheney-Coker and The last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar -- Intermediate magic and the fiction of B. Kojo Laing -- 'Old Gods, new worlds' : some conclusions