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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797864003321

Autore

Arellano Jeronimo <1978->

Titolo

Magical realism and the history of the emotions in Latin America / / Jeronimo Arellano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, Maryland : , : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61148-670-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

863.00998

Soggetti

Spanish American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Wonder - History

Emotions - History

Magic realism (Literature)

Marvelous, The, in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: worldly wonder -- Wonder in the colonial heart. The intermittence of the marvelous; Columbus's first journal and the materiality of the emotions; Colonial chronicles as archives of feelings -- The afterlives of feelings. Alejo Carpentier's lo real maravilloso americano and the colonial history of wonder; The afterlives of feelings: wonder as palimpsest in Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad; In the graveyards of magical realism: the dissafection of the marvelous and César Aira's El mago.

Sommario/riassunto

"Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in light of the cultural history of the emotions and in conversation with contemporary theories of affect. It explores how twentieth-century magical realist narrative reimagines public and collective forms of feeling, in particular the colonial history of wonder in the wake of the voyages to the New World" --