A Companion to Magical Realism (EPDF) von Stephen M Hart

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.

Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Poltics of Aesthetics [with Wen-chin Ouyang]
Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Politics of Aesthetics [with Stephen M Hart] - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Section I: Introduction: Genealogies, Myths, Archives
Swords and Silver Rings: Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez - Lois Parkinson Zamora
The Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and García Márquez - Donald L Shaw
The Earth as Archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo [with Julia King]
Alejo Carpentier's Re-invention of América Latin as Real and Marvellous
The Golden Age Myth in Gabriel García Márquez'sOne Hundred Years of Solitude and Ovid'sMetamorphoses - Lorna Robinson
Lessons from the Golden Age in Gabriel García Márquez'sLiving to Tell the Tale - Efraín Kristal
Section II: Introduction: History, Nightmare, Fantasy
History and the Fantastic in José Saramago's Fiction - David Henn
Magical-Realist Elements in José Eustasio Rivera'sThe Vortex - Humberto Nuñez-Faraco
Beyond Magic Realism inThe Red of His Shadow by Marya Montero - Alejandra Rengifo
Cops, Robbers, and Anarcho-terrorists: Crime and Magical Realism's Jewish Question - Michael Berkowitz
Flights of Fancy: Angela Carter's Transgressive Narratives - Sarah Sceats
Section III: Introduction: The Politics of Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Humour and Magical Realism inEl reino de este mundo - Evelyn Fishburn
Magical Realism and Children's Literature: Isabel Allende'sLa Ciudad de las Bestias - Philip Swanson
Unsavoury Representations in Laura Esquivel'sLike Water for Chocolate - Helene Price
Not so Innocent - An Israeli Tale of Subversion: Dorit Rabinyan'sPersian Brides - Tsila Ratner
Magical Realism as Ideology: Narrative Evasions in the Work of Nakagami Kenji - Mark Morris
Legend, Fantasy and the Birth of the New in`Los funerales de la Mamá Grande by Gabriel García Márquez - Robin Fiddian
Section IV: Introduction: Empire, Nation, Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Magical Nationalism, Lyric Poetry and the Marvellous: W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney - Johnathan Allison
Empire and Tribal Magic in a Tuareg Epic: Ibrahim al-Kuni'sLunar Eclipse - Stefan Sperl
Magical Realism and Nomadic Writing in the Maghreb - John Erickson
Of Numerology and Butterflies: Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie'sThe Satanic Verses - Stephanie Jones
FromThe Thousand and One Nights to Magical Realism: Postnational Predicament inThe Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias KhouryElias Khoury - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Guide to Further Reading [with Kenneth Reeds] - Stephen M. Hart
Select Bibliography - Stephen M. Hart