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    Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community » Read Now

    by Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris. 582 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Magical Realism MAGICAL REALISM Theory, History, Community Edited with an Introduction...Information Systems. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Magical...
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    Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye » Read Now

    by Brenda Cooper. 250 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre in...
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    "Searching for the Route of Inventions": Retracing the Renaissance Discovery Narrative in Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in CLIO » Read Now

    by Elizabeth A. Spiller. 24 pgs.

    ...determined by the demands that magical realism makes on its readers to accommodate...and magic to Garcia Marquezs "magical realism," I would extend that argument...Zamora...
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    Show and Tell: Identity as Performance in U.S. Latina/O Fiction (Chap. 5 "The 'Boom' in U.S. Latina/o Fiction: Performing Magical Realism in The Love Queen of the Amazon and So Far From God") » Read Now

    by Karen Christian. 189 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    What makes John Rechy a Chicano writer? To be Latino, must writing have a touch of 'magical realism'? Can one talk of US Latina/o identity, considering the diversity of the Latina/o experience? Through the analysis of nine recent Latino/a novels, Karen Christian answers these and other questions...
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    More Real Than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (Discussion of magical realism begins on p. 214) » Read Now

    by Donald E. Morse, Csilla Bertha. 272 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    From the ancient texts and medieval illuminated manuscripts to 20th century poetry, painting, drama, stories, and novels, Irish writers and artists have found the fantastic not only congenial but necessary to their art. This collection of fifteen essays focuses on the fantastic in Irish literature...
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    Not the Magic Talisman: Rethinking Oral Literature in South Africa, in World Literature Today » Read Now

    by Isabel Hofmeyr. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...chameleons, dwarves, and fantastic happenings--in short, an already-disillusioned 1970s anticipation of 1980s "magical realism." With his characteristic chutzpah, Marechera...
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    Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics (Chap. 11 "Cat's Eye Vision 'Rapunzel' and 'The Snow Queen'" ) » Read Now

    by Sharon Rose Wilson. 432 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Intriguing investigation of fairy-tale images in Atwood's haunting fiction, poetry, & artwork.
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    Latin America, Its Problems and Its Promise: A Multidisciplinary Introduction ("Fantasy and Magical Realism; Experimental Theater" begins on p. 116) » Read Now

    by Jan Knippers Black. 658 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Praise for earlier editions: "Deserves serious consideration for use at the undergraduate level.... Will provide undergraduates with a broad understanding of the evolution of the issues & theoretical frameworks that have been at the center of this field of study." Journal of Third World Studies "The...
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    The Literary Pulse of the Americas, in Americas » Read Now

    by Barbara Mujica. 4 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...literature were inseparable. Social realism gave way to magical realism, associated primarily with Garcia Marquez but having...writers such as Alcides Arguedas and Alejo...
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    Authorizing Female Voice and Experience: Ghosts and Spirits in Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior' and Allende's 'The House of the Spirits', in MELUS » Read Now

    by Ruth Y. Jenkins. 13 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...much has been written on the magical realism of Latin American writing, much...patriarchal authority. Like the "magical realism" identified in much Latin...
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    Magical Neoliberalism, in Foreign Policy » Read Now

    by Alberto Fuguet. 8 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...quaint, folkloric sensibility of magical realism has given way to a gritty, urban...founding father of the cult of magical realism, a sort of curse that has afflicted...
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    Novel Views of Isabel Allende, in The Washington Times » Read Now

    by Ann Geracimos. 1 pgs.

    ...Byline: Ann Geracimos The term "magical realism," so often applied to the works...Arts. She especially objects to magical realism as a blanket description of her...were...
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    Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies ("Magical Realism" begins on p. 283 » Read Now

    by John C. Hawley, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 510 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    The collapse of empires has resulted in a greater appreciation for indigenous cultures in former colonies and a renaissance of creativity. More than 150 alphabetically arranged entries by expert contributors overview and assess the effects of globalization on literary and cultural studies in the...
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