num_pages: 304
description: The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garca Mrquez [in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, José Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Mara Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, José Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism.Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading.Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efran Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto Nez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson.Table of Contents Globalization of Magical New Poltics of Aesthetics [with Wen-chin Ouyang] - Stephen M. Hart Globalization of Magical New Politics of Aesthetics [with Stephen M Hart] - Wen-Chin OuyangSection Genealogies, Myths, Archives - Stephen M. HartSwords and Silver Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garca Mrquez - Lois Parkinson ZamoraThe Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and Garca Mrquez - Donald L ShawThe Earth as Archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo [with Julia King] - Stephen M. HartAlejo Carpentier's Re-invention of América Latin as Real and Marvellous -The Golden Age Myth in Gabriel Garca Mrquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses - Lorna RobinsonLessons from the Golden Age in Gabriel Garca Mrquez's Living to Tell the Tale - Efran KristalSection History, Nightmare, Fantasy - Stephen M. HartHistory and the Fantastic in José Saramago's Fiction - David HennMagical-Realist Elements in José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex - Humberto Nuez-FaracoBeyond Magic Realism in The Red of His Shadow by Marya Montero - Alejandra RengifoCops, Robbers, and Crime and Magical Realism's Jewish Question - Michael BerkowitzFlights of Angela Carter's Transgressive Narratives - Sarah SceatsSection The Politics of Magic - Wen-Chin OuyangHumour and Magical Realism in El reino de este mundo - Evelyn FishburnMagical Realism and Children's Isabel Allende's La Ciudad de las Bestias - Philip SwansonUnsavoury Representations in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate - Helene PriceNot so Innocent - An Israeli Tale of Dorit Rabinyan's Persian Brides - Tsila RatnerMagical Realism as Narrative Evasions in the Work of Nakagami Kenji - Mark MorrisLegend, Fantasy and the Birth of the New in `Los funerales de la Mam Grande by Gabriel Garca Mrquez - Robin FiddianSection Empire, Nation, Magic - Wen-Chin OuyangMagical Nationalism, Lyric Poetry and the W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney - Johnathan AllisonEmpire and Tribal Magic in a Tuareg Ibrahim al-Kuni's Lunar Eclipse - Stefan SperlMagical Realism and Nomadic Writing in the Maghreb - John EricksonOf Numerology and Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - Stephanie JonesFrom The Thousand and One Nights to Magical Postnational Predicament in The Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias KhouryElias Khoury - Wen-Chin OuyangGuide to Further Reading [with Kenneth Reeds] - Stephen M. HartSelect Bibliography - Stephen M. Hart
language: English
title: A Companion to Magical Realism
titlecomplete: A Companion to Magical Realism
genres: Magical Realism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Tamesis Books