LEADER 04731nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910454562703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-59442-7 010 $a9786612594427 010 $a90-420-2601-4 010 $a1-4416-1705-1 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042026018 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786575 035 $a(EBL)556624 035 $a(OCoLC)642819525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344032 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12099468 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344032 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10307295 035 $a(PQKB)10624029 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556624 035 $a(OCoLC)842973143$z(OCoLC)430347601$z(OCoLC)642819525$z(OCoLC)764536366 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042026018 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556624 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380441 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL259442 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786575 100 $a20090517d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUncertain mirrors$b[electronic resource] $emagical realisms in US ethnic literatures /$fJesu?s Benito, Ana Ma Manzanas ; Begon?a Simal 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (276 p.) 225 1 $aCritical approaches to ethnic American literature ;$vno. 3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2600-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tLouise Erdrich?s ?Father?s Milk?: Magical Realism?s Oxymoronic Nature /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tMimesis, Realism, and Counter-realisms /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tRomance, the Imaginary, and Magical Realism /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tThe Crisis of Representation: Post-realism, Postmodernism, Magical Realism /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tJuxtaposed Realities: Magical Realism and/as Postcolonial Experience /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tFrom Identity to Alter-entity: Trans-selving the Self in Magical Realist Narratives /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tOf a Magical Nature: The Environmental Unconscious /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tA Negative Sense of Reality /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tBibliography /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tIndex /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal --$tAuthors /$rJesús Benito , Ana M Manzanas and Begońa Simal. 330 $aUncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno?s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term ?mimesis? as both a ?world-reflecting? and a ?world-creating? mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different ?location of culture? and ?direction of culture;? they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical. 410 0$aCritical approaches to ethnic American literature ;$vno. 3. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9920693 700 $aBenito Sa?nchez$b Jesu?s$0610855 701 $aManzanas Calvo$b Ana Ma$g(Ana Mari?a)$0610856 701 $aSimal Gonza?lez$b Begon?a$0879807 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454562703321 996 $aUncertain mirrors$91964649 997 $aUNINA