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This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.

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"In this exciting new book, Frederick Luis Aldama has done an outstanding job of remapping 'magical realism.'"---Werner Sollors, Henry B. And Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Rethreading the Magical Realist Debate
  • 1. Rebellious Aesthetic Acts
  • 2. Dash's and Kureishi's Rebellious Magicoreels
  • 3. Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's De-formed Auto-bio-graphé
  • 4. Ana Castillo's (En)Gendered Magicorealism
  • 5. Salman Rushdie's Fourthspace Narrative Re-Conquistas
  • Coda: Mapping the Postethnic Critical Method
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/04/2003
      ISBN13: 9780292722101, 978-0292722101
      ISBN10: 0292722109

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.

      Trade Review
      "In this exciting new book, Frederick Luis Aldama has done an outstanding job of remapping 'magical realism.'"---Werner Sollors, Henry B. And Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Rethreading the Magical Realist Debate
      • 1. Rebellious Aesthetic Acts
      • 2. Dash's and Kureishi's Rebellious Magicoreels
      • 3. Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's De-formed Auto-bio-graphé
      • 4. Ana Castillo's (En)Gendered Magicorealism
      • 5. Salman Rushdie's Fourthspace Narrative Re-Conquistas
      • Coda: Mapping the Postethnic Critical Method
      • Notes
      • Works Cited
      • Index

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