03304nam 22007095 450 991078104600332120200919224839.01-282-50453-397866125045320-230-23443-710.1057/9780230234437(CKB)2550000000006924(EBL)483183(OCoLC)608279429(SSID)ssj0000362728(PQKBManifestationID)11262514(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362728(PQKBWorkID)10381537(PQKB)11777394(DE-He213)978-0-230-23443-7(MiAaPQ)EBC483183(EXLCZ)99255000000000692420151006d2009 u| 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrMagical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel[electronic resource] Between Faith and Irreverence /by Christopher Warnes1st ed. 2009.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2009.1 online resource (198 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-36082-1 0-230-54528-9 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 García Márquez'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.This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, García Márquez, 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.Literature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature   FictionLiterature—PhilosophyTwentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Postcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Fictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature   .Fiction.Literature—Philosophy.Twentieth-Century Literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.Fiction.Literary Theory.809.91517.76bclWarnes Christopherauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1581175CaOLUBOOK9910781046003321Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel3862555UNINA