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Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction

Author : Taner Can
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838267540
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction written by Taner Can and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). The main focus of attention lies on the ways in which the novelists in question have exploited the potentials of magical realism to represent their hybrid cultural and national identities. To provide the necessary historical context for the discussion, the author first traces the development of magical realism from its origins in European Painting to its appropriation into literature by European and Latin American writers and explores the contested definitions of magical realism and the critical questions surrounding them. He then proceeds to analyze the relationship between the paradigmatic turn that took place in postcolonial literatures in the 1980s and the concomitant rise of magical realism as the literary expression of Third World countries.

Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel

Author : Christopher Warnes
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel written by Christopher Warnes and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterised by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism.

Multiculturalism and Magic Realism? Between Fiction and Reality

Author : Sylvia Hadjetian
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638932834
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis Multiculturalism and Magic Realism? Between Fiction and Reality by : Sylvia Hadjetian

Download or read book Multiculturalism and Magic Realism? Between Fiction and Reality written by Sylvia Hadjetian and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Regensburg (Anglistik), 190 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Since the 1970s, there has been an increasing concern with the impact of colonialism and postcolonialism on British identities and culture and the influence that the former British Empire had and still has on people in the former colonies and in Britain today. Novels like Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" or "The Satanic Verses", Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia", Meera Syal's "Anita and Me", Timothy Mo's "Sour Sweet", Sam Selvon's "The Lonely Londoners" and Monica Ali's "Brick Lane" along with films like "Bend it like Beckham" or TV series like "The Kumars at No. 42" and "Da Ali G Show" exemplify this rather new phenomenon and its world-wide success. They are representative of a large group of multicultural novels and productions created during the last few decades. Although multiculturalism is not new in the media, there has been a special boom of writers of the "empire within" during the last ten years.

Magical Realism and Literature

Author : Christopher Warnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108621759
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Magical Realism and Literature written by Christopher Warnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time.

Coterminous Worlds

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434763
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Coterminous Worlds written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves itself into the supernatural an indication that the whole literary project of 'magical realism' is an instrumental and representational form which can be regarded as particularly suitable for reconciling dichotomies and oppositions otherwise experienced as intolerable? Was 'magical realism' an explosive process in cultural dynamics, taking place at intersections of heterogeneous cultures most favourable to the efflorescence of this type of literature? The authors of the various essays - on Patrick White and David Malouf, Ben Okri, Syl Cheney-Coker, Robert Kroetsch, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Jack Hodgins, Salman Rushdie, Janet Frame, Wilson Harris and others - provide a dynamic focus on the reality at stake beneath the surface representations of 'magical realism' in post-colonial literatures.

Lies that Tell the Truth

Author : Anne C. Hegerfeldt
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042019743
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Lies that Tell the Truth written by Anne C. Hegerfeldt and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic realism has long been treated as a phenomenon restricted to postcolonial literature. Drawing on works from Britain, Lies that Tell the Truth compellingly shows how magic realist fiction can be produced also at what is usually considered to be the cultural centre without forfeiting the mode's postcolonial attitude and aims. A close analysis of works by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Robert Nye and others reveals how the techniques of magic realism generate a complex critique of the West's rational-empirical worldview from within a Western context itself. Understanding magic realism as a fictional analogue of anthropology and sociology, Lies that Tell the Truth reads the mode as a frequently humorous but at the same time critical investigation into people's attempts to make sense of their world. By laying bare the manifold strategies employed to make meaning, magic realist fiction indicates that knowledge and reality cannot be reduced to hard facts, but that people's dreams and fears, ideas, stories and beliefs must equally be taken into account.

Magical Realism and Deleuze

Author : Eva Aldea
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441109986
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Magical Realism and Deleuze written by Eva Aldea and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

Author : Ursula Kluwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136480951
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction by : Ursula Kluwick

Download or read book Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction written by Ursula Kluwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial. In a departure from conventional descriptions of magic realism—based primarily on the Latin-American tradition—Kluwick here proposes an alternative definition, allowing for a more accurate description of the form. She argues that it is disharmony, rather than harmony, that is decisive: that the incompatibility of the realist and the supernatural needs to be recognized as a driving force in Rushdie’s fiction. In its rigorous analysis of this Rushdian magic realism, this book considers the entire corpus—Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence. This study is the first of its kind to do so.

Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004464263
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.

Paradise

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804169888
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Paradise written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem. “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” —Los Angeles Times

Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality

Author : Sylvia Hadjetian
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 3954897423
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality written by Sylvia Hadjetian and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, there has been increasing concern with the impact of (post)colonialism on British identities and culture. White Teeth by Zadie Smith is the story of three families from three different cultural backgrounds, set mostly in multicultural London. The first part of this book provides an overview of the former British Empire, the Commonwealth and the history of Bangladesh, Jamaica and the Jews in England as relevant to White Teeth. Following this, the role of the (former) centre of London will be presented. Subsequently, definitions and postcolonial theories (Bhabha, Said etc.) shall be discussed.The focus of this book is on life in multicultural London. The main aspects analysed in these chapters deal with identity, the location where the novel is set and racism. A further aim of the book is a comparison between the fictional world of White Teeth and reality. One chapter is devoted to the question of magic realism and the novel's position between two worlds.In a summary, the writer hopes to convince the readers of the fascination felt when reading the novel and when plunging into the buzzing streets of contemporary multicultural London.

A Companion to Magical Realism

Author : Stephen M. Hart
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855661209
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Magical Realism written by Stephen M. Hart and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 Garc a M rquez 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, Mar a 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. CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efra n Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto N ez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson.

Crossing Borders

Author : S. Erin Denney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by S. Erin Denney and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar

Author : Syl Cheney-Coker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803288876
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar written by Syl Cheney-Coker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Syl Cheney-Coker's acclaimed debut novel, The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar traces the history of a nation's rise and fall, as prophesied by an ancient sorcerer. A military general sits in one of Malagueta's prison cells, awaiting his execution. He has just failed to overthrow the government. In the same land, over two centuries ago, the wife of a formerly enslaved man takes her first steps towards freedom. From the creation of Malagueta to its devastating fall, Alusine Dunbar, the wizened old diviner, has prophesied it all. And what he sees, he calls a tragedy. One of Sierra Leone's most renowned novelists and poets, Sly Cheney-Coker creates a world teeming with magical realism as he paints the journey from precolonial Africa to its shaky independence.

Mimesis Genres & Post Colonial Discourse

Author : J. Durix
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333732250
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Mimesis Genres & Post Colonial Discourse written by J. Durix and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Patriarchy and Power in Magical Realism

Author : Maryam Ebadi Asayesh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443895651
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Patriarchy and Power in Magical Realism written by Maryam Ebadi Asayesh and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although the term magic(al) realism appeared in 1925 in pictorial art in Germany, it became well-known with the boom of magical realist fiction in Latin America in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, it has become one of the popular modes of writing worldwide. Due to its oxymoronic and hybrid nature, it has caught the attention of critics. Some have called it a postcolonial form of writing because of its prominence in postcolonial countries, while others have called it a postmodern mode because of the time of its emergence and the techniques applied in these kinds of novels.This book discusses how magical realism was used in the works of three contemporary female writers, Indigo or, Mapping the Waters (1992) by the British Marina Warner, The House of the Spirits (1982) by the Latin American writer Isabel Allende, and Fatma: a novel of Arabia (2002) by the Saudi Arabian Raja Alem. It shows how, by applying magical realism, these writers empowered women. Using revisionary nostalgia, these works changed the process of history writing by the powerful, showed the presence of women, and gave voice to their unheard stories. Even the techniques applied in these novels presented the clash with patriarchy and power."

Postethnic Narrative Criticism

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292784376
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Postethnic Narrative Criticism written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers and filmmakers such as Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie have made brilliant use of magical realism to articulate the trauma of dislocation and the legacies of colonialism that people of color experience in the postcolonial, multiethnic world. This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Frederick Aldama engages in theoretically sophisticated readings of Ana Castillo's So Far from God, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, and The Moor's Last Sigh, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, and Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. Coining the term "magicorealism" to characterize these works, Aldama not only creates a postethnic critical methodology for enlarging the contact zone between the genres of novel, film, and autobiography, but also shatters the interpretive lens that traditionally confuses the transcription of the real world, where truth and falsity apply, with narrative modes governed by other criteria.