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Title Magical realism : theory, history, community / edited with an introduction, by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris.

Imprint Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1995.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  809.3937 M272    ---  Available
Description ix, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-558) and index.
Contents Daiquiri birds and Flaubertian parrot(ie)s / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris -- Magic Realism : Post-Expressionism / Franz Roh -- Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther -- On the marvelous real in America / Alejo Carpentier -- Baroque and the marvelous real / Alejo Carpentier -- Magical realism in Spanish American fiction / Angel Flores -- Magical realism in Spanish American literature / Luis Leal -- Territorialization of the imaginary in Latin America : self-affirmation and resistance to metropolitan paradigms / Amaryll Chanady -- Sources of magic realism, supplements to realism in contemporary Latin American literature / Scott Simpkins -- Scheherazade's children : magical realism and postmodern fiction / Wendy B. Faris -- Magic realism and postmodernism : decentering privileged centers / Theo L. D'haen -- Metamorphoses of fictional space : magical realism / Rawdon Wilson -- Textualization of the reader in magical realist fiction / Jon Thiem -- Psychic realism, mythic realism, grotesque realism : variations on magic realism in contemporary literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant -- Magical realism, compensatory vision, and felt history : classical realism transformed in The white hotel / John Burt Foster Jr. -- Past-on stories : history and the magically real, Morrison and Allende on call / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Narrative trickery and performative historiography : fictional representation of national identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd -- Saleem fathered by Oskar : Midnight's children, magic realism, and The tin drum / Patricia Merivale -- Magical archetypes : midlife miracles in The satanic verses / Steven F. Walker -- Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier : nature, history, and the Caribbean writer / David Mikics -- Magic realism as postcolonial discourse / Stephen Slemon -- Metoikoi and magical realism in the Maghrebian narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson -- Magic of identity : magic realism in modern Japanese fiction / Susan J. Napier -- 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" / Melissa Stewart -- Magical romance/magical realism : ghosts in U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora.
Subject Magic realism (Literature)
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Added Author Zamora, Lois Parkinson.
Faris, Wendy B.
ISBN 0822316404 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822316110 (alk. paper)

 
    
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