Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel [[electronic resource] ] : Between Faith and Irreverence / / by Christopher Warnes

• Autore: Warnes Christopher
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2009.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.915
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern—20th century; Literature ; Fiction; Literature—Philosophy; Twentieth-Century Literature; Postcolonial/World Literature; Literary Theory
• Classificazione: 17.76
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.167-179) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel
• ISBN: 1-282-50453-3; 9786612504532; 0-230-23443-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781046003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II