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Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic
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Irene Guenther
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vi
- Acknowledgments x
- Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s 1
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I. Foundations
- Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925) 15
- Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic 33
- On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) 75
- The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) 89
- Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) 109
- Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) 119
- The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms 125
- Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature 145
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II. Theory
- Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction 163
- Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers 191
- The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism 209
- The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction 235
- Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English 249
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III. History
- Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel 267
- Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call 285
- Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler 305
- Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum 329
- Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses 347
- Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer 371
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IV. Community
- Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse 407
- Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi 427
- The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction 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 497
- Selected Bibliography 551
- Contributors 559
- Index 563
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vi
- Acknowledgments x
- Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s 1
-
I. Foundations
- Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925) 15
- Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic 33
- On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) 75
- The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) 89
- Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) 109
- Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) 119
- The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms 125
- Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature 145
-
II. Theory
- Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction 163
- Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers 191
- The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism 209
- The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction 235
- Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English 249
-
III. History
- Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel 267
- Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call 285
- Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler 305
- Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum 329
- Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses 347
- Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer 371
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IV. Community
- Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse 407
- Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi 427
- The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction 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 497
- Selected Bibliography 551
- Contributors 559
- Index 563