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Magical Realism

Editat de Lois Parkinson Zamora
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 1995

Nivel de studiu: licență și master în litere și studii culturale. Această antologie critică, editată de Lois Parkinson Zamora și Wendy B. Faris, reprezintă un instrument de referință fundamental pentru înțelegerea realismului magic nu doar ca specific sud-american, ci ca fenomen literar global. Volumul este structurat riguros, începând cu o secțiune de „Fundamente” care recuperează rădăcinile conceptului din lumea artei, și continuând cu o secțiune teoretică ce analizează impactul mișcării asupra literaturii contemporane. Ne-a atras atenția includerea unor documente istorice esențiale: prima traducere în limba engleză a eseului lui Franz Roh din 1925, care a pus bazele teoretice ale termenului în contextul post-expresionismului german, alături de textele programatice ale lui Alejo Carpentier. Reținem că lucrarea depășește granițele geografice obișnuite, oferind analize aplicate pe texte semnate de autori precum Toni Morrison, Günter Grass sau Abe Kobo. Această abordare extinde cadrul propus de A Companion to Magical Realism de Stephen M. Hart, oferind o perspectivă istorică mult mai vastă care pornește de la Republica de la Weimar până la manifestările postmoderne actuale. Spre deosebire de alte titluri care se concentrează strict pe zona postcolonială, precum Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel, antologia de față integrează realismul magic într-o istorie culturală universală, evidențiind rolul său de catalizator în revitalizarea tradițiilor narative consacrate prin infuzia de elemente fantastice și folclorice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822316404
ISBN-10: 0822316404
Pagini: 592
Ilustrații: 11 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 233 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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Este o resursă academică esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii care doresc să înțeleagă geneza și evoluția realismului magic. Cititorul câștigă acces direct la textele teoretice fondatoare ale lui Franz Roh și Alejo Carpentier, traduse și comentate, oferind o bază solidă pentru analize comparatiste între literatura europeană, americană și cea asiatică.


Recenzii

"A fascinating read for any Hispanist, comparatist, or student of the magically real. [This work] is a useful reference tool...O --Patricia Hart, World Literature Today

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"This critical collection combines astute and graceful interpretations of well-known literary texts from the Americas while at the same time displaying a rich global understanding of the broad reach of magical realism. Fashioning subtle rethinkings of the magical realist movement, it will shape discussion of postmodern and postcolonial literary histories."--Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley

Cuprins

Acknowledgments x
Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s/ Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris 1
1. Foundations
Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism 91925) / Franz Roh 15
Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther 33
On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) / Alejo Carpentier 75
The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) / Alejo Carpentier 89
Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) / Angel Flores 109
Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) / Louis Leal 119
The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms / Amaryl Chanady 125
Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature / Scott Simpkins 145
II. Theory
Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris 163
Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers / Theo L. D'haen 191
The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism / Rawdon Wilson 209
The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem 235
Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant 249
III. History
Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel / John Burt Foster Jr. 267
Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call / P. Gabrielle Foreman 285
Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd 305
Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum / Patricia Merivale 329
Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses / Steven F. Walker 347
Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer / David Milkies 371
IV. Community
Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse / Stephen Slemon 407
Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson 427
The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction / Susan J. Napier 451
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" 477
Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora 497
Selected Bibliography 551
Contributors 559
Index 563

Descriere

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.