Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism [electronic resource] : Strategizing Belonging /
Sasser, K.author.
Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.
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1 Magical Realism's Constructive Capacity; The Authorial Circle and Latin American Magical Realism; Magical Realism and Postcoloniality; Magical Realism from the Metropole; Postmodern Magical Realism; Magical Realism in Postmemorial Holocaust Literature; Magical Realism's Unsavory Stage; Defining the Mode; Three Magical Realist Modi Operandi; Controversy?; 2 "How Are We to Live in the World?": Cosmopolitan Cartographies; Why Belonging Now?; "How Are We to Live in the World?": Belonging's Question; The (Relatively) New Cosmopolitans; Literary Cosmopolitanisms
Literary Cosmopolitanisms: ApproachesStrategizing Belonging; Cosmopolitan Toolbox; Narrative Enfleshment; Conclusion; 3 Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road; Jeremiah's Camera Case; Other Humanisms; The Engendered Postcolonial Nation; Lo real maravilloso; Conclusion; 4 Universal Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence; Layer One: Particularism; Layer Two: Doubling; Layer Three: Exile; Universal Cosmopolitanism; Beyond Hybridity; Magical Realist Metamorphosis; Conclusion; 5 The Family Nexus in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban; Political Families
Inner Worlds; Wider Worlds; The Magical Braid; Belonging to People; 6 Uncanny Subjectivity in Helen Oyeymi's The Icarus Girl; The Concentric Circles Debate; TillyTilly; Abiku/Ibeji; Alter Ego; The Doppelgänger and the Uncanny Self; Cautionary Cosmopolitanism; 7 Making a Spectacle of Itself: Magical Realism as Cosmopolitan Form in the Era of Late Globalization; Bidimensionality; Spectacality and Brockmeier's The Illumination; Antinomy; Renewal; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature   .
Literature—Philosophy.
Fiction.
British literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.