{"product_id":"magical-realism-9780822316404","title":"Magical Realism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—José David Saldívar, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\"Zamora and Faris persuasively support their claim that magical realism is not only—or even mainly—a Latin American phenomenon, as is usually thought, but a truly international development of the last half century or so and, a major, perhaps \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e major, component of postmodernist fiction.\"—Matei Calinescu, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s\/ Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Foundations \u003cbr\u003e Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism 91925) \/ Franz Roh 15\u003cbr\u003e Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic \/ Irene Guenther 33\u003cbr\u003e On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) \/ Alejo Carpentier 75\u003cbr\u003e The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) \/ Alejo Carpentier 89\u003cbr\u003e Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) \/ Angel Flores 109\u003cbr\u003e Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) \/ Louis Leal 119\u003cbr\u003e The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms \/ Amaryl Chanady 125\u003cbr\u003e Sources of Magic Realism\/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature \/ Scott Simpkins 145\u003cbr\u003e II. Theory \u003cbr\u003e Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction \/ Wendy B. Faris 163\u003cbr\u003e Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers \/ Theo L. D'haen 191\u003cbr\u003e The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism \/ Rawdon Wilson 209\u003cbr\u003e The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction \/ Jon Thiem 235\u003cbr\u003e Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English \/ Jeanne Delbaere-Garant 249\u003cbr\u003e III. History \u003cbr\u003e Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in \u003ci\u003eThe White Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e \/ John Burt Foster Jr. 267\u003cbr\u003e Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call \/ P. Gabrielle Foreman 285\u003cbr\u003e Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler \/ Richard Todd 305\u003cbr\u003e Saleem Fathered by Oskar: \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, Magic Realism, and \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Patricia Merivale 329\u003cbr\u003e Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Steven F. Walker 347\u003cbr\u003e Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer \/ David Milkies 371\u003cbr\u003e IV. Community \u003cbr\u003e Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse \/ Stephen Slemon 407\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMetoikoi\u003c\/i\u003e and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi \/ John Erickson 427\u003cbr\u003e The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction \/ Susan J. Napier 451\u003cbr\u003e Roads of \"Exquisite Mysterious Muck\": The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's \u003ci\u003eIronweed\u003c\/i\u003e, John Cheever's \"The Enormous Radio,\" and Donald Barthelme's \"City Life\" 477\u003cbr\u003e Magical Romance\/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction \/ Lois Parkinson Zamora 497\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 551\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 559\u003cbr\u003e Index 563","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528004280663,"sku":"9780822316404","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822316404.jpg?v=1731870031","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/magical-realism-9780822316404","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}