Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : daiquiri birds and Flaubertian parrot(ie)s / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris
  • Magic Realism : Post-Expressionism / Franz Roh
  • Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther
  • On the marvelous real in America ; The Baroque and the marvelous real / Alejo Carpentier
  • Magical realism in Spanish American fiction / Angel Flores
  • Magical realism in Spanish American literature / Luis Leal
  • The territorialization of the imaginary in Latin America : self-affirmation and resistance to metropolitan paradigms / Amaryll Chanady
  • Sources of magic realism, supplements to realism in contemporary Latin American literature / Scott Simpkins
  • Scheherazade's children : magical realism and postmodern fiction / Wendy B. Faris
  • Magic realism and postmodernism : decentering privileged centers / Theo L. D'haen
  • The metamorphoses of fictional space : magical realism / Rawdon Wilson
  • The textualization of the reader in magical realist fiction / Jon Thiem
  • Psychic realism, mythic realism, grotesque realism : variations on magic realism in contemporary literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant
  • Magical realism, compensatory vision, and felt history : classical realism transformed in The white hotel / John Burt Foster Jr.
  • Past-on stories : history and the magically real, Morrison and Allende on call / P. Gabrielle Foreman
  • Narrative trickery and performative historiography : fictional representation of national identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd
  • Saleem fathered by Oskar : Midnight's children, magic realism, and The tin drum / Patricia Merivale
  • Magical archetypes : midlife miracles in The satanic verses / Steven F. Walker
  • Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier : nature, history, and the Caribbean writer / David Mikics
  • Magic realism as postcolonial discourse / Stephen Slemon
  • Metoikoi and magical realism in the Maghrebian narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson
  • The magic of identity : magic realism in modern Japanese fiction / Susan J. Napier
  • 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" / Melissa Stewart
  • Magical romance/magical realism : ghosts in U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora.