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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2020
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781108551601
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551601
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
Series:
Cambridge Critical Concepts
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transgeographical approach, this book encourages readers to rethink and amplify their knowledge of magical realism ... Recommended.’

I. Portaro Source: Choice Magazine

‘the essays collected in this dense and well-edited critical anthology make abundantly clear that magical realism has become a truly cosmopolitan mode of writing in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries … this volume offers innovative perspectives on a mode of writing that is now entering its second century. Being a coherently structured and effectively written book, Magical Realism and Literature will rapidly become an indispensable research tool for all scholars in the field.’

Marc Maufort Source: Magical Realisms for a Global Twenty-first Century

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