| Description |
xxxi, 239 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical insights
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Critical insights.
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| Contents |
About this volume ; On magical realism as in international phenomenon in the twenty-first century / Ignacio López-Calvo -- Theories of magical realism / Erik Camayd-Freixas -- Magical realism and its discontents / Juan E. De Castro -- Magical realism and subaltern studies / Maggie Ann Bowers -- Magic and realism in history : magical realism vs. the fantastic today / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- When magical realism loses its spell : revisiting Gabriel García Márquez's Of love and other demons / Rudyard J. Alcocer -- Plague of modernity : Macondo, Inc. and the branding of "magical" Latin America / Martín Camps -- History, ethnography, and magical realism in Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's The diffuse biography of Sombra Castañeda / Fernando Valerio-Holguín -- Construction of the magic and the role of popular religion in the Caribbean context / Ángel L. Estévez -- Unbearable weight of being in Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho's Cachalote / David William Foster -- Underdogs and beautiful lies : magical realism in the second world / Nicholas Birns -- Proliferation : the case for magical realisms from Oyeyemi's The Icarus girl / Kim Anderson Sasser -- Panthers and jaguars : realism and responsibility in Salman Rushdie's Shame / Rachel Trousdale -- Shadow of magical realism in José Luis Cuerda's 1980s films / Ignacio López-Calvo. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index. |
| Subject |
Magic realism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
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Magic realism (Literature) |
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Latin American literature -- History and criticism.
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Latin American literature. |
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Comparative literature.
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Comparative literature. |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
López-Calvo, Ignacio, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781619254138 (hardback) |
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1619254131 (hardback) |
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