Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. Acknowledgments x
4. Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s 1
5. I. Foundations
6. Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925) 15
7. Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic 33
8. On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) 75
9. The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) 89
10. Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) 109
11. Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) 119
12. The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms 125
13. Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature 145
14. II. Theory
15. Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction 163
16. Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers 191
17. The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism 209
18. The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction 235
19. Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English 249
20. III. History
21. Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel 267
22. Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call 285
23. Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler 305
24. Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum 329
25. Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses 347
26. Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer 371
27. IV. Community
28. Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse 407
29. Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi 427
30. The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction 451
31. 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
32. Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction 497
33. Selected Bibliography 551
34. Contributors 559
35. Index 563