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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community

Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community Paperback - 2003

by Lois Parkinson Zamora [Editor]; Wendy B. Faris [Editor];

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  • Title Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community
  • Author Lois Parkinson Zamora [Editor]; Wendy B. Faris [Editor];
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press Books, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # HC22301260018
  • ISBN 9780822316404 / 0822316404
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 5.99 x 1.4 in (23.32 x 15.21 x 3.56 cm)
  • Reading level 1510
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction - 20th century - History and, Spanish American fiction - 20th century -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-47223
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.393

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From the publisher

Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history and a significant influence among the literatures of the world. In essays on texts by writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Gnter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, Abe Kobo, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, and many others, magical realism is examined as a worldwide phenomenon.
Presenting the first English translation of Franz Roh's 1925 essay in which the term magical realism was coined, as well as Alejo Carpentier's classic 1949 essay that introduced the concept of lo real maravilloso to the Americas, this anthology begins by tracing the foundations of magical realism from its origins in the art world to its current literary contexts. It offers a broad range of critical perspectives and theoretical approaches to this movement, as well as intensive analyses of various cultural traditions and individual texts from Eastern Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Australia, in addition to those from Latin America. In situating magical realism within the expanse of literary and cultural history, this collection describes a mode of writing that has been a catalyst in the development of new regional literatures and a revitalizing force for more established narrative traditions--writing particularly alive in postcolonial contexts and a major component of postmodernist fiction.

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"This critical collection combines astute and graceful interpretations of well-known literary texts from the Americas while at the same time displaying a rich global understanding of the broad reach of magical realism. Fashioning subtle rethinkings of the magical realist movement, it will shape discussion of postmodern and postcolonial literary histories."--Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley

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About the author

Lois Parkinson Zamora is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Houston.

Wendy B. Faris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Arlington.

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