Magical realism and the postcolonial novel [electronic resource] : between faith and irreverence / Christopher Warnes.

By: Warnes, ChristopherContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009Description: vii, 189 pSubject(s): Magic realism (Literature) | Magisch realisme | Romans | Postkolonialisme | RomantiekGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.915 LOC classification: PN56.M24 | W37 2009Other classification: 17.76 Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p.167-179) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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