"This critical collection combines astute and graceful interpretations of well-known literary texts from the Americas while at the same time displaying a rich global understanding of the broad reach of magical realism. Fashioning subtle rethinkings of the magical realist movement, it will shape discussion of postmodern and postcolonial literary histories."--Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley
"This critical collection combines astute and graceful interpretations of well-known literary texts from the Americas while at the same time displaying a rich global understanding of the broad reach of magical realism. Fashioning subtle rethinkings of the magical realist movement, it will shape discussion of postmodern and postcolonial literary histories."--Jose David Saldivar, University of California, BerkeleyHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Acknowledgments x Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s/ Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris 1 1. Foundations Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism 91925) / 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) / Louis Leal 119 The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms / Amaryl 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 Milkies 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" 477 Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora 497 Selected Bibliography 551 Contributors 559 Index 563
Acknowledgments x Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s/ Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris 1 1. Foundations Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism 91925) / 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) / Louis Leal 119 The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms / Amaryl 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 Milkies 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" 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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