03076nam 22007935 450 991096221890332120240508214801.09786612504532978128250453012825045339780230234437023023443710.1057/9780230234437(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(Perlego)3502784(EXLCZ)99255000000000692420151006d2009 u| 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrMagical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel 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.9781349360826 1349360821 9780230545281 0230545289 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.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, Modern20th centuryLiteratureFictionLiteraturePhilosophyTwentieth-Century LiteratureWorld LiteratureFiction LiteratureLiterary TheoryLiterature, ModernLiterature.Fiction.LiteraturePhilosophy.Twentieth-Century Literature.World Literature.Fiction Literature.Literary Theory.809.91517.76bclWarnes Christopher1792624MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962218903321Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel4331308UNINA