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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Magical realism. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)604580616 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lois Parkinson Zamora; Wendy B Faris |
| ISBN: | 0822316110 9780822316114 0822316404 9780822316404 |
| OCLC Number: | 31739246 |
| Description: | ix, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : daiquiri birds and Flaubertian parrot(ie)s / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris -- Magic Realism : Post-Expressionism / Franz Roh -- Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther -- On the marvelous real in America ; The Baroque and the marvelous real / Alejo Carpentier -- Magical realism in Spanish American fiction / Angel Flores -- Magical realism in Spanish American literature / Luis Leal -- The territorialization of the imaginary in Latin America : self-affirmation and resistance to metropolitan paradigms / Amaryll Chanady -- Sources of magic realism, supplements to realism in contemporary Latin American literature / Scott Simpkins -- Scheherazade's children : magical realism and postmodern fiction / Wendy B. Faris -- Magic realism and postmodernism : decentering privileged centers / Theo L. D'haen -- The metamorphoses of fictional space : magical realism / Rawdon Wilson -- The textualization of the reader in magical realist fiction / Jon Thiem -- Psychic realism, mythic realism, grotesque realism : variations on magic realism in contemporary literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant -- Magical realism, compensatory vision, and felt history : classical realism transformed in The white hotel / John Burt Foster Jr. -- Past-on stories : history and the magically real, Morrison and Allende on call / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Narrative trickery and performative historiography : fictional representation of national identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd -- Saleem fathered by Oskar : Midnight's children, magic realism, and The tin drum / Patricia Merivale -- Magical archetypes : midlife miracles in The satanic verses / Steven F. Walker -- Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier : nature, history, and the Caribbean writer / David Mikics -- Magic realism as postcolonial discourse / Stephen Slemon -- Metoikoi and magical realism in the Maghrebian narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson -- The magic of identity : magic realism in modern Japanese fiction / Susan J. Napier -- 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" / Melissa Stewart -- Magical romance/magical realism : ghosts in U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora. |
| Responsibility: | edited with an introduction, by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. |
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments x
Introduction : daiquiri birds and Flaubertian parrot(ie)s / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris
Parrot(ie)s 1
I. FOUNDATIONS
Magic Realism : Post-Expressionism (1925) / Franz Roh 15
Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther 33
On the marvelous real in America (1949) / Alejo Carpentier 75
The Baroque and the marvelous real (1975) / Alejo Carpentier 89
Magical realism in Spanish American fiction (1955) / Angel Flores 109
Magical realism in Spanish American literature (1967) / Luis Leal 119
The territorialization of the imaginary in Latin America : self-affirmation and resistance to metropolitan paradigms / Amaryll Chanady 125
Sources of magic realism, supplements to realism in contemporary Latin American literature / Scott Simpkins 145
II. THEORY
Scheherazade's children : magical realism and postmodern fiction / Wendy B. Faris 163
Magic realism and postmodernism : decentering privileged centers / Theo L. D'haen 191
The metamorphoses of fictional space : magical realism / Rawdon Wilson 209
The textualization of the reader in magical realist fiction / Jon Thiem 235
Psychic realism, mythic realism, grotesque realism : variations on magic realism in contemporary literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant 249
III. HISTORY
Magical realism, compensatory vision, and felt history : classical realism transformed in "The White Hotel" / John Burt Foster Jr. 267
Past-on stories : history and the magically real, Morrison and Allende on call / P. Gabrielle Foreman 285
Narrative trickery and performative historiography : fictional representation of national identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd 305
Saleem fathered by Oskar : "Midnight's Children", magic realism, and "The Tin Drum" / Patricia Merivale 329
Magical archetypes : midlife miracles in "The Satanic Verses" / Steven F. Walker 347
Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier : nature, history, and the Caribbean writer / David Mikics 371
IV. COMMUNITY
Magic realism as postcolonial discourse / Stephen Slemon 407
"Metoikoi" and magical realism in the Maghrebian narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson 427
The magic of identity : magic realism in modern Japanese fiction / Susan J. Napier 451
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" / Melissa Stewart 477
Magical romance/magical realism : ghosts in U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora 497
Selected Bibliography 551
Contributors 559
Index 563
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