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Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel

Between Faith and Irreverence

  • Authors
  • Christopher Warnes
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Re-thinking Magical Realism
    Christopher Warnes
    Pages 1-17
  3. Magical Realism as Postcolonial Romance
    Christopher Warnes
    Pages 18-40
  4. Faith, Idealism, and Irreverence in Asturias, Borges, and Carpentier
    Christopher Warnes
    Pages 41-74
  5. Magical Realism and Defamiliarisation in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
    Christopher Warnes
    Pages 75-96
  6. Migrancy and Metamorphosis in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses
    Christopher Warnes
    Pages 97-123
  7. The African World View in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
    Christopher Warnes
    Pages 124-149
  8. Conclusion
    Christopher Warnes
    Pages 150-154
  9. Back Matter
    Pages 155-189
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About this book

Introduction

This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, García Márquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism.

Keywords

Africa African bibliography idealism nature novel realism

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