ISBN:

• 9781619254138
• 1619254131

Edition: [First edition].

Description: xxxi, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• About this volume ; On magical realism as in international phenomenon in the twenty-first century / Ignacio López-Calvo
• Theories of magical realism / Erik Camayd-Freixas
• Magical realism and its discontents / Juan E. De Castro
• Magical realism and subaltern studies / Maggie Ann Bowers
• Magic and realism in history : magical realism vs. the fantastic today / Gene H. Bell-Villada
• When magical realism loses its spell : revisiting Gabriel García Márquez's Of love and other demons / Rudyard J. Alcocer
• The plague of modernity : Macondo, Inc. and the branding of "magical" Latin America / Martín Camps
• History, ethnography, and magical realism in Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's The diffuse biography of Sombra Castañeda / Fernando Valerio-Holguín
• The construction of the magic and the role of popular religion in the Caribbean context / Ángel L. Estévez
• The unbearable weight of being in Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho's Cachalote / David William Foster
• Underdogs and beautiful lies : magical realism in the second world / Nicholas Birns
• Proliferation : the case for magical realisms from Oyeyemi's The Icarus girl / Kim Anderson Sasser
• Panthers and jaguars : realism and responsibility in Salman Rushdie's Shame / Rachel Trousdale
• The shadow of magical realism in José Luis Cuerda's 1980s films / Ignacio López-Calvo.

Control Number: 1363612

Series:

• Critical insights
• Critical insights.

Subjects:

• Comparative literature.
• Latin American literature -- History and criticism.
• Magic realism (Literature) -- History and criticism.

Other Authors: López-Calvo, Ignacio, editor.