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Can, Taner.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Rushdie, Salman. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Tharoor, Shashi, 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Tharoor, Shashi, 1956- |
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Okri, Ben -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Okri, Ben. |
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Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cheney-Coker, Syl, 1945- |
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth fiction (English) |
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20th century |
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Magic realism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
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Magic realism (Literature) |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Can, Taner. Magical realism in postcolonial british fiction. [Place of publication not identified] : Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild, 2015 3838207548 9783838207544 (OCoLC)900016320 |
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9783838267548 (electronic book) |
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3838267540 (electronic book) |
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3838207548 |
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9783838207544 |
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3838207246 |
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EB00665323 Recorded Books |
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