Magical realism /editor, Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced.

Magical realism /editor, Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced. - [First edition. - Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; (c)2014. Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xxxi, 239 pages) - Critical insights .

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Includes bibliographies and index.

About this volume ; On magical realism as in international phenomenon in the twenty-first century / Theories of magical realism / Magical realism and its discontents / Magical realism and subaltern studies / Magic and realism in history : magical realism vs. the fantastic today / When magical realism loses its spell : revisiting Gabriel García Márquez's Of love and other demons / The plague of modernity : Macondo, Incorporated and the branding of "magical" Latin America / History, ethnography, and magical realism in Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's The diffuse biography of Sombra Castañeda / The construction of the magic and the role of popular religion in the Caribbean context / The unbearable weight of being in Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho's Cachalote / Underdogs and beautiful lies : magical realism in the second world / Proliferation : the case for magical realisms from Oyeyemi's The Icarus girl / Panthers and jaguars : realism and responsibility in Salman Rushdie's Shame / The shadow of magical realism in José Luis Cuerda's 1980s films / Ignacio López-Calvo -- Erik Camayd-Freixas -- Juan E. De Castro -- Maggie Ann Bowers -- Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Rudyard J. Alcocer -- Martín Camps -- Fernando Valerio-Holguín -- Ángel L. Estévez -- David William Foster -- Nicholas Birns -- Kim Anderson Sasser -- Rachel Trousdale -- Ignacio López-Calvo.



9781619254145


Magic realism (Literature)--History and criticism.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.
Comparative literature.


Electronic Books.

PN56 / .M345 2014