Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Politics of Aesthetics
5. Magical Realism: Style and Substance 1
6. Magical Realism and Beyond: Ideology of Fantasy 13
7. Familiar Grounds, Novel Trajectories: The Fantastic, the Real and Magical Realism 20
8. PART I: GENEALOGIES, MYTHS, ARCHIVES
9. Introduction 25
10. Swords and Silver Rings: Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez 28
11. The Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and García Márquez 46
12. The Earth as Archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo 55
13. Alejo Carpentier’s Re-invention of América Latina as Real and Marvellous 67
14. The Golden Age Myth in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ovid’s Metamorphoses 79
15. Lessons from the Golden Age in Gabriel García Márquez’s Living to Tell the Tale 88
16. PART II: HISTORY, NIGHTMARE, FANTASY
17. Introduction 101
18. History and the Fantastic in José Saramago’s Fiction 103
19. Magical-realist Elements in José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex 114
20. Beyond Magical Realism in The Red of His Shadow by Mayra Montero 123
21. Cops, Robbers, and Anarcho-terrorists: Crime and Magical Realism’s Jewish Question 131
22. Flights of Fancy: Angela Carter’s Transgressive Narratives 142
23. PART III: THE POLITICS OF MAGIC
24. Introduction 153
25. Humour and Magical Realism in El reino de este mundo 155
26. Magical Realism and Children’s Literature: Isabel Allende’s La Ciudad de las Bestias 168
27. Unsavoury Representations in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate 181
28. Not So Innocent – An Israeli Tale of Subversion: Dorit Rabinyan’s Persian Brides 191
29. Magical Realism as Ideology: Narrative Evasions in the Work of Nakagami Kenji 199
30. Legend, Fantasy and the Birth of the New in Los funerales de la Mamá Grande by Gabriel García Márquez 210
31. PART IV: EMPIRE, NATION, MAGIC
32. Introduction 225
33. Magical Nationalism, Lyric Poetry and the Marvellous: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney 228
34. Empire and Magic in a Tuareg Novel: Ibrāhim al-Kawnĩ’s al-Khusūf (The Lunar Eclipse) 237
35. Magical Realism and Nomadic Writing in the Maghreb 247
36. Of Numerology and Butterflies: Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses 256
37. From The Thousand and One Nights to Magical Realism: Postnational Predicament in The Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias Khoury 267
38. Guide to Further Reading 281
39. Selected Bibliography 285
40. Index 291