A companion to magical realism / edited by Stephen M. Hart and Wen-chin Ouyang.
"A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession"--Provided by publisher.
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Rochester, N.Y. :
Tamesis,
2005.
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| Series: | Colección Támesis. Monografías ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Globalization of magical realism: new politics of aesthetics
- Magical realism: style and substance / Stephen M. Hart
- Magical realism and beyond: ideology of fantasy / Wen-Chin Ouyang
- Familiar grounds, novel trajectories: the fantastic, the real and magical realism / Stephen Hart and Wen-Chin Ouyang
- pt. 1. Genealogies, myths, archives
- Introduction / Stephen M. Hart
- Swords and silver rings: magical objects in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez / Lois Parkinson Zamora
- The presence of myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo, and García Márquez / Donald L. Shaw
- The earth as archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias, and Rulfo / Julia King and Stephen M. Hart
- Alejo Carpentier's re-invention of América Latina as real and marvellous / Jason Wilson
- The golden age myth in Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses / Lorna Robinson
- Lessons from the Golden age in Gabriel García Márquez's Living to tell the tale / Efraín Kristal.
- pt. 2. History, nightmare, fantasy
- Introduction / Stephen M. Hart
- History and the fantastic in José Saramago's fiction / David Henn
- Magical-realist elements in José Eustasio Rivera's The vortex / Humberto Núñez-Faraco
- Beyond magical realism in The red of his shadow by Mayra Montero / Alejandra Rengifo
- Cops, robbers, and anarcho-terrorists: crime and magical realism's Jewish question / Michael Berkowitz
- Flights of fancy: Angela Carter's transgressive narratives / Sarah Sceats
- pt. 3. The politics of magic
- Introduction / Wen-Chin Ouyang
- Humour and magical realism in El reino de este mundo / Evelyn Fishburn
- Magical realism and children's literature: Isabel Allende's La ciudad de las bestias / Philip Swanson
- Unsavoury representations in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Helene Price
- Not so innocent
- An Israeli tale of subversion: Dorit Rabinyan's Persian brides / Tsila (Abramovitz) Ratner
- Magical realism as ideology: narrative evasions in the work of Nakagami Kenji / Mark Morris
- Legend, fantasy, and the birth of the new in Los funerales de la mamá grade by Gabriel García Márquez / Robin Fiddian.
- pt. 4. Empire, nation, magic
- Introduction / Wen-Chin Ouyang
- Magical nationalism, lyric poetry, and the marvellous: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney / Jonathan Allison
- Empire and magic in a Tuareg novel: Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī's al-Khusūf (The lunar eclipse) / Stefan Sperl
- Magical realism and nomadic writing in the Maghreb / John D. Erickson
- Of numerology and butterflies: magical realism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses / Stephanie Jones
- From The thousand and one nights to magical realism: postnational predicament in The journey of little Ghandi by Elias Khoury / Wen-Chin Ouyang
- Guide to further reading / Stephen M. Hart and Kenneth Reeds.