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Introduction
Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. He argues that, in the New Literatures which are often rooted in hybrid aesthetics, the often decried mimesis must be viewed from a completely different angle. Analysing texts by Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris and Edouard Glissant, he pleads for the redefinition of 'magic realism' if the term is to retain generic relevance.
Keywords
aesthetics Alejo Carpentier argue bibliography building culture English literature epic genre hybridization literature magic realism realism Research in English and American Literature utopia
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377165
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-40695-1
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-37716-5
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