Magical Realism

by Zamora, Lois Parkinson; Faris, Wendy B.; Roh, Franz (CON); Guenther, Irene (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822316404
• ISBN10: 0822316404
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"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 "the" major, component of postmodernist fiction."--Matei Calinescu, Indiana University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s

Foundations

Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism 91925)

Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic

On the Marvelous Real in America (1949)

The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975)

Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955)

Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967)

The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms

Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature

Theory

Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction

Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers

The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism

The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction

Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English

History

Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel

Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call

Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler

Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum

Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses

Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer

Community

Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse

Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi

The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction

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"

Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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