Magical realism and the postcolonial novel [electronic resource] : between faith and irreverence / Christopher Warnes.
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Basingstoke ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
