Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel
Title | Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Warnes |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 2009-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230234437 |
This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, García Márquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism.
Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel
Title | Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Warnes |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 2009-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781137440860 |
This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, García Márquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism.
Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel
Title | Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Warnes |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2009-03-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
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This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterised by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism.
Magical Realism and Deleuze
Title | Magical Realism and Deleuze PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Aldea |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2011-02-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441109986 |
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Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction
Title | Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Taner Can |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2014-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3838267540 |
This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). The main focus of attention lies on the ways in which the novelists in question have exploited the potentials of magical realism to represent their hybrid cultural and national identities. To provide the necessary historical context for the discussion, the author first traces the development of magical realism from its origins in European Painting to its appropriation into literature by European and Latin American writers and explores the contested definitions of magical realism and the critical questions surrounding them. He then proceeds to analyze the relationship between the paradigmatic turn that took place in postcolonial literatures in the 1980s and the concomitant rise of magical realism as the literary expression of Third World countries.
Magical Realism and Literature
Title | Magical Realism and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Warnes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 730 |
Release | 2020-11-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108621759 |
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.
The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Ato Quayson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107132819 |
This Companion provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Covering subjects from disability and diaspora to the sublime and the city, this Companion reveals the myriad traditions that have shaped the postcolonial literary landscape.