Magical realism and the postcolonial novel between faith and irreverence
Title:
Magical realism and the postcolonial novel between faith and irreverence
Author:
Warnes, Christopher.
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Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.
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vii, 189 p.
Contents:
1. Introduction: re-thinking magical realism -- 2. Magical realism as postcolonial romance -- 3. Faith, idealism, and irreverence in Asturias, Borges, and Carpentier -- 4. Magical realism and defamiliarisation in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One hundred years of solitude' -- 5. Migrancy and metamorphosis in Salman Rushdie's 'The satanic verses' -- 6. The African world view in Ben Okri's 'The famished road' -- 7. Conclusion.
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