A Companion To Magical Realism (monografmas A) [Paperback]

Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garca Mrquez [in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jos? Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Mara Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jos? Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism.Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading.Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Poltics of Aesthetics [with Wen-chin Ouyang] - Stephen M. HartIntroduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Politics of Aesthetics [with Stephen M Hart] - Wen-Chin OuyangSection I: Introduction: Genealogies, Myths, Archives - Stephen M. HartSwords and Silver Rings: Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garca Mrquez - Lois Parkinson ZamoraThe Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and Garclcð