Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.
Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.
Kim Anderson Sasser is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College where she has taught courses including Modern Global Literature, Magical Realism, and West African Literature. Her areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone fiction, magical realism, cosmopolitanism, and postcolonial literature and theory.
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Acknowledgements 1. Magical Realism's Constructive Capacity 2. 'How Are We to Live in the World?': Cosmopolitan Cartographies 3. Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road 4. Universal Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence 5. The Family Nexus in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban 6. Uncanny Subjectivity in Helen Oyeymi's The Icarus Girl 7. Making a Spectacle of Itself: Magical Realism as Cosmopolitan Form in the Era of Late Globalization Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements 1. Magical Realism's Constructive Capacity 2. 'How Are We to Live in the World?': Cosmopolitan Cartographies 3. Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road 4. Universal Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence 5. The Family Nexus in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban 6. Uncanny Subjectivity in Helen Oyeymi's The Icarus Girl 7. Making a Spectacle of Itself: Magical Realism as Cosmopolitan Form in the Era of Late Globalization Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements 1. Magical Realism's Constructive Capacity 2. 'How Are We to Live in the World?': Cosmopolitan Cartographies 3. Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road 4. Universal Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence 5. The Family Nexus in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban 6. Uncanny Subjectivity in Helen Oyeymi's The Icarus Girl 7. Making a Spectacle of Itself: Magical Realism as Cosmopolitan Form in the Era of Late Globalization Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements 1. Magical Realism's Constructive Capacity 2. 'How Are We to Live in the World?': Cosmopolitan Cartographies 3. Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road 4. Universal Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence 5. The Family Nexus in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban 6. Uncanny Subjectivity in Helen Oyeymi's The Icarus Girl 7. Making a Spectacle of Itself: Magical Realism as Cosmopolitan Form in the Era of Late Globalization Bibliography Index
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