Magical realism theory, history, community
Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-...
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| Language: | English |
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Durham ; London
Duke University Press
1995, ©1995
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s
- I. Foundations
- Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925)
- Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic
- On the Marvelous Real in America (1949)
- The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975)
- Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955)
- Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967)
- The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms
- Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature
- II. Theory
- Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction
- Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers
- The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism
- The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction
- Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English
- III. History
- Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel
- Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call
- Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler
- Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum
- Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses
- Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer
- IV. Community
- Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse
- Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi
- The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction
- Roads of "Exquisite Mysterious Muck": The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's Ironweed, John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio," and Donald Barthelme's "City Life"
- Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index