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Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction: History, Nation, and Narration Taner Can, Koray Melikoglu
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Can, Taner, Author.
- Series:
- Studies in English literatures ; 19.
- Studies in English Literatures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- magical realism.
- Europe.
- Latin America.
- postcolonial literature.
- postcolonialism.
- Syl Cheney-Coker.
- history of literature.
- cultural identity.
- Third World.
- literature.
- fiction.
- Shashi Tharoor.
- movement.
- Ben Okri.
- novel.
- English literature.
- Salman Rushdie.
- national identity.
- Local Subjects:
- magical realism.
- Europe.
- Latin America.
- postcolonial literature.
- postcolonialism.
- Syl Cheney-Coker.
- history of literature.
- cultural identity.
- Third World.
- literature.
- fiction.
- Shashi Tharoor.
- movement.
- Ben Okri.
- novel.
- English literature.
- Salman Rushdie.
- national identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hannover ibidem 2015
- Biography/History:
- Taner Can is an instructor of English at Ankara University School of Foreign Languages. His research interests include modern fiction, cultural studies, and literary theory.
- Taner Can is an instructor of English at Ankara University School of Foreign Languages. His research interests include modern fiction, cultural studies, and literary theory.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Painting to Literature: A Genealogy of Magical Realism; Chapter 2 From Latin America to the Globe: DissemiNation of Magical Realism and the Postcolonial; 2.1. The Rise of National Literatures and Commonwealth Criticism; 2.1.1. The Awakening of African Nationalism; 2.1.2. The Awakening of Indian Nationalism; 2.2. Toward an Aesthetics of Hybridity: Postcolonial Studies; Chapter 3 Reclaiming Indian Past(s): Postmodern Historiography and Magical Realism in the Indian English Novel
- 3.1. (Re)imagining India in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children3.2. Mythologising Indian History: Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel; Chapter 4 The Yarns of the Black Continent: Magical Realism in the African English Novels; 4.1. An Abiku Nation: Ben Okri's The Famished Road; 4.2. A Black Odyssey Home: Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar; Works Cited
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-8382-6754-0
- Publisher Number:
- 9783838267548
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