Contents -- Editorial -- Pauline Melville's marvels of reality, by Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań / University of Social Sciences, Warsaw -- Towards a "third space": Magic realism in English Canadian literature, by Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, Université Libre, Brussels -- Sagas of Northern contacts and magic realism: From historical conflicts to fictional conciliations, by Hartmut Lutz, University of Szczecin -- Whose magic? A comparative reflection on magic realism in Native and white Canadian prose, by Ewa Bodal, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń -- Let the crow speak: Magic realism and Indigenous knowledge as beak(on)s of light in Robert Kroetsch's ecological gothic text "What the crow said", by Alanna F. Bondar, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario -- Magic realist and utopian discourses in Margaret Sweatman's "When Alice lay down with Peter": negotiating paradigms of belonging, by Agnieszka Rzepa, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań -- City, identity and wartime narrative in "De Niro's game" by Rawi Hage, by Monika Włudzik, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń -- 'There, time juggles fire…' - A Jewish shtetl revisited in Lilian Nattel's "The river midnight", by Dagmara Drewniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań -- Subversion of rationalism through feminine excess in Susan Swan's "The biggest modern woman of the world" and Angela Carter's "Nights at the circus", by Nelly Strehlau, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń -- Pain overflowing boundaries: Magic realism and US theatre, by Jacob Juntunen, Ohio University, Athens, OH -- Pak's Britannica: An Interview with David Dabydeen, by Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań / University of Social Sciences, Warsaw.