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Palgrave MacMillan Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel Between Faith and Irreverence 2014 Edition by Christopher Warnes
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 characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism. Table of contents :- Preface Introduction: Re-thinking Magical Realism Magical Realism as Postcolonial Romance Faith, Idealism and Irreverence in Asturias, Borges and Carpentier Magical Realism and Defamiliarisation in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude Migrancy and Metamorphosis in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses The African World View in Ben Okri's The Famished Road Conclusion Bibliography Index