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Author Aldea, Eva.

Title Magical realism and Deleuze : the indiscernibility of difference in postcolonial literature / Eva Aldea.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (194 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Continuum literary studies
Continuum literary studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index.
Contents Introduction: magical realism: a history of magical realism: typologies and definitions; reality and text: postcolonial or postmodern; realism and the resolution of antinomy -- Gilles Deleuze and magical realism: introduction: the importance of ontology; Deleuze and the univocity of being; Deleuze and redemption; series and systems; series and magical realism; Hallward and the postcolonial problem -- Models of magical realsim: introduction: a model of magical realism: One hundred years of solitude (1967); reading One hundred years of solitude in Deleuzian terms: the state of Macondo; a regime of signs and the apprenticeship of signs; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children (1981): the state as identity; Angela Carter's Nights at the circus (1984): reterritorialization through relation; Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987): the imperative to reterritorialization -- Magical realism and the signs of art: introduction: the magical signs of art; Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002): becoming non-human at sea; André Brink's Devil's valley (1998): what is real and what is magic?; Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry (1989): transcending the flesh through time -- Deleuze and the postcolonial politics of magical realism: introduction: magical realism and the postcolonial; a deleuzian theory of magical realism: the people are missing; Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said (1978): the stuff before the stuff that is history or culture or society or art; Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason (1986): the reality of migrants and nomadic magic; Ben Okri's The famished road (1991): the aesthetic of possibilities.
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Subject Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Criticism and interpretation.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Knowledge and learning -- Literature.
Literature.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Magic realism (Literature)
Magic realism (Literature)
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Literature -- Philosophy.
Literature -- Philosophy.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literature.
Other Form: Print version: Aldea, Eva. Magical realism and Deleuze. New York : Continuum, 2011 9781441109989 (DLC) 2010015193 (OCoLC)606767088
ISBN 9781441102966 (electronic book)
1441102965 (electronic book)
9781441109989 (hardcover)
1441109986 (hardcover)