[PDF] Magical Realism And Beyond eBook

Author : Stephen M. Hart
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855661209

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The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garc a M rquez in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jos Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Mar a Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jos Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efra n Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto N ez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson.

Author : Christopher Warnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108621759

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Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time.

Author : Lois Parkinson Zamora
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822316404

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On magical realism in literature

Author : Timothy Zahn
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429915684

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Dragon and Thief, the first novel in the Dragonback series from Timothy Zahn, was named an American Library Association Best Book For Young Adults. The second novel, Dragon and Soldier is another fast-paced, compulsively readable SF adventure featuring an odd couple of reluctant partners on an unusual quest. Draycos, a golden-scaled draconic K'da poet-warrior, was on a scout fleet ship when it was attacked, with him the lone survivor. Forced to find a new symbiotic humanoid host, he found Jack Morgan. Jack has been on his own, making his way by shipping interstellar cargo on the ship he's inherited from his Uncle Virgil, a con-man and thief who met with a fatal accident. Draycos has vowed to uncover those behind a vast conspiracy to wipe out his people, while Jack is determined to find out who framed him for a crime he didn't commit. Virgil, who survives as "Uncle Virge" in the ship's computer, is against their plan. But Draycos once saved Jack's life, so Jack feels an obligation to this strange creature who can slip onto the boy's skin, pressing against it like a living tattoo. Knowing that mercenaries were involved in the ambush that killed Draycos's fleet, Jack enlists in a mercenary outfit that practically enslaves adolescent recruits. But the soldier's life isn't exactly what Jack had bargained for, especially when a mysterious girl is recruited into his group. Strange things are happening, and people and events are not always as they seem. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Wendy B. Faris
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826514424

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Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new theory to explain its significance. In the most comprehensive critical treatment of this literary mode to date, Wendy B. Faris discusses a rich array of examples from magical realist novels around the world, including the work not only of Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but also of authors like Salman Rushdie, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, and Ben Okri. Faris argues that by combining realistic representation with fantastic elements so that the marvelous seems to grow organically out of the ordinary, magical realism destabilizes the dominant form of realism based on empirical definitions of reality, gives it visionary power, and thus constitutes what might be called a "remystification" of narrative in the West. Noting the radical narrative heterogeneity of magical realism, the author compares its cultural role to that of traditional shamanic performance, which joins the worlds of daily life and that of the spirits. Because of that capacity to bridge different worlds, magical realism has served as an effective decolonizing agent, providing the ground for marginal voices, submerged traditions, and emergent literatures to develop and create masterpieces. At the same time, this process is not limited to postcolonial situations but constitutes a global trend that replenishes realism from within. In addition to describing what many consider to be the progressive cultural work of magical realism, Faris also confronts the recent accusation that magical realism and its study as a global phenomenon can be seen as a form of commodification and an imposition of cultural homogeneity. And finally, drawing on the narrative innovations and cultural scenarios that magical realism enacts, she extends those principles toward issues of gender and the possibility of a female element within magical realism.

Author : Amaryll Beatrice Chanady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000639053

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Every reader of literature interprets the literary text on the basis of information they have acquired from previous reading, and according to norms they have established, either consciously or not, with regard to a work of literature. In this study, originally published in 1985, the author clarifies the concepts of magical realism and the fantastic, and establishes a series of guidelines that will allow us to distinguish between the two similar yet independent modes. The reader will thus be able to identify the implicit framework upon which the author of the fantastic and of magical realism bases their text.

Author : Shannin Schroeder
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Drawing from a variety of contemporary literature—including such works as One Hundred Years of Solitude, Beloved, and Like Water for Chocolate—Schroeder explores magical realism as one of many common denominators in the literature of the Americas, challenging the notion that magical realism should be defined merely in terms of geography or Latin American history. By relying on an all-encompassing vision of this unique mode of writing, the author argues that the Americas share a literary tradition and validates the North American strain of the mode. In addition, she points to fundamentally similar approaches to fiction that illustrate the ways in which the Americas share a common literature and calls for increased Pan-American scholarship. Counteracting the critical tendency to label anything unreal or supernatural in literature as magical realism, Schroeder traces the mode through a variety of contemporary works, including well-known and lesser-known examples. Through a carefully articulated history and description of the mode itself, she is able to show that while Latin American and North American fiction share in common certain features of magical realism, their distinctive approaches to it reflect Latin America's third-world concerns and North America's preoccupation with popular culture and capitalism. Tracing the forces of change at work on the mode in an effort to counter the tendency among scholars to apply the label without justification, this book reclaims magical realism as a current and significant term for use in its application to literary works.

Author : Elsa Linguanti
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042004382

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Preliminary Material --Acknowledgements /Elsa Linguanti , Francesco Casotti , and Carmen Concilio --Introduction /Elsa Linguanti --Notes on Spanish-American Magical Realism /Tommaso Scarano --The Magic of Language in the novels of Patrick White and David Malouf /Carmen Concilio --Salman Rushdie's Special Effects /Shaul Bassi --Worlds, Things, Words Rushdie's style from Grimus to Midnight's Children /Carmen Dell'Aversano --Representing the Worlds Sanskrit poetics and the making of reality /Alessandro Monti --The Ragged Edge of Miracles or: A word or two on those Jack Hodgins novels /Lucia Boldrini --Bees, Bodies, and Magical Miscegenation Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said /Luca Biagiotti --Myth, Magic, and the Real in Gwendolyn MacEwen's Noman /Biancamaria Rizzardi Perutelli --Bewildered With Nature The magical-realist in Joe Rosenblatt /Alfredo Rizzardi --Coterminous Worlds /Robert Bringhurst --The Magic Reality of Memory Janet Frame's The Carpathians /Isabella Maria Zoppi --Re-Dreaming the World Ben Okri's shamanic realism /Renato Oliva --Reality and Magic in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar /PaoIo Bertinetti --"History never walks here, it runs in any direction" Carnival and magic in the novels of Kojo Laing and Mia Couto /Pietro Deandrea --Magical Realism Beyond the Wall of Apartheid? Missing Persons by Ivan Vladislavic /Valeria Guidotti --Wilson Harris A case apart /EIsa Linguanti --Works Cited /Elsa Linguanti , Francesco Casotti , and Carmen Concilio --Contributors /Elsa Linguanti , Francesco Casotti , and Carmen Concilio.

Author : Richard Perez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030398358

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The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.