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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (592 p) , 11 illustrations

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ISBN: 9780822397212

Content: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s -- I. Foundations -- Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925) -- Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic -- On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) -- The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) -- Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) -- Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) -- The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms -- Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature -- II. Theory -- Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction -- Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers -- The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism -- The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction -- Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English -- III. History -- Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel -- Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call -- Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler -- Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum -- Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses -- Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer -- IV. Community -- Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse -- Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi -- The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction -- Roads of "Exquisite Mysterious Muck": The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's Ironweed, John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio," and Donald Barthelme's "City Life" -- Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Content: Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history and a significant influence among the literatures of the world. In essays on texts by writers as diverse as Toni Morrison, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, Abe Kobo, Gabriel García Márquez, and many others, magical realism is examined as a worldwide phenomenon.Presenting the first English translation of Franz Roh’s 1925 essay in which the term magical realism was coined, as well as Alejo Carpentier’s classic 1949 essay that introduced the concept of lo real maravilloso to the Americas, this anthology begins by tracing the foundations of magical realism from its origins in the art world to its current literary contexts. It offers a broad range of critical perspectives and theoretical approaches to this movement, as well as intensive analyses of various cultural traditions and individual texts from Eastern Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and Australia, in addition to those from Latin America. In situating magical realism within the expanse of literary and cultural history, this collection describes a mode of writing that has been a catalyst in the development of new regional literatures and a revitalizing force for more established narrative traditions—writing particularly alive in postcolonial contexts and a major component of postmodernist fiction

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Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822397212

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Format: 1 online resource (536 p.)

ISBN: 9780822385776

Series Statement: New Americanists

Content: Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States—including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade—are common to most of the Americas, Look Away! points to postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part of the United States, the South—both center and margin, victor and defeated, and empire and colony—complicates ideas of the postcolonial. The twenty-two essays in this comparative, interdisciplinary collection rethink southern U.S. identity, race, and the differences and commonalities between the cultural productions and imagined communities of the U.S. South and Latin America.Look Away! presents work by respected scholars in comparative literature, American studies, and Latin American studies. The contributors analyze how writers—including the Martinican Edouard Glissant, the Cuban-American Gustavo Pérez Firmat, and the Trinidad-born, British V. S. Naipaul—have engaged with the southern United States. They explore William Faulkner’s role in Latin American thought and consider his work in relation to that of Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Many essays re-examine major topics in southern U.S. culture—such as race, slavery, slave resistance, and the legacies of the past—through the lens of postcolonial theory and postmodern geography. Others discuss the South in relation to the U.S.–Mexico border. Throughout the volume, the contributors consistently reconceptualize U.S. southern culture in a way that acknowledges its postcolonial status without diminishing its distinctiveness.Contributors. Jesse Alemán, Bob Brinkmeyer, Debra Cohen, Deborah Cohn, Michael Dash, Leigh Anne Duck, Wendy Faris, Earl Fitz, George Handley, Steve Hunsaker, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Dane Johnson, Richard King, Jane Landers, John T. Matthews, Stephanie Merrim, Helen Oakley, Vincent Pérez, John-Michael Rivera, Scott Romine, Jon Smith, Ilan Stavans, Philip Weinstein, Lois Parkinson Zamora

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities -- , 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN -- , A New World Poetics of Oblivion -- , Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture -- , Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution -- , Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity -- , Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier -- , Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- , Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past -- , 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION -- , Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Red Rock and The Leopard’s Spots -- , This Race Which Is Not One: The ‘‘More Inextricable Compositeness’’ of William Faulkner’s South -- , Richard Wright: From the South to Africa—and Beyond -- , Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination -- , American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas -- , 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA -- , Wonder and the Wounds of ‘‘Southern’’ Histories -- , Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes -- , Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction -- , ‘‘Wherein the South Di√ers from the North’’: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude -- , William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing -- , William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition -- , 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH -- , Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question -- , Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel -- , POSDATA -- , Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822385776

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385776

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