A companion to magical realism

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"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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Title Statements

Full title :A companion to magical realism / edited by Stephen M. Hart and Wen-chin Ouyang.

Summary

"A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession"--Provided by publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Tamesis
Place of Publication:Rochester, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 293 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1855661209, 9781855661202
oclc:ocm58042999
LC Classification:PQ7082.N7
Dewey Decimal:863/.60915

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…

Subjects

18.33 Spanish-American literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Fiction -- History and criticism. -- 20… Letterkunde Magic realism (Literature) Magic realist fiction Magisch realisme Réalisme magique (Littérature) Roman -- Histoire et critique. -- 20e s… Roman hispano-américain -- Histoire et … Spaans Spanish American fiction Spanish American fiction -- History and…