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Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel : Between Faith and Irreverence / by Christopher Warnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warnes, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature.
- Fiction.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: re-thinking magical realism
- 2. Magical realism as postcolonial romance
- 3. Faith, idealism, and irreverence in Asturias, Borges, and Carpentier
- 4. Magical realism and defamiliarisation in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One hundred years of solitude'
- 5. Migrancy and metamorphosis in Salman Rushdie's 'The satanic verses'
- 6. The African world view in Ben Okri's 'The famished road'
- 7. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.167-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612504532
- 9781282504530
- 1282504533
- 9780230234437
- 0230234437
- OCLC:
- 608279429
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