A companion to magical realism [a number of the essays in this book were originally read at the Conference on Magical Realism at SOAS on 7-9 November 2002

This new Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel García Márquez (in particular his recently published memoirs), Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, José Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, María Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, José Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garca Mrquez [in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jos Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Mara Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jos Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efran Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto Nez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson. Table of Contents Globalization of Magical New Poltics of Aesthetics [with Wen-chin Ouyang] - Stephen M. Hart Globalization of Magical New Politics of Aesthetics [with Stephen M Hart] - Wen-Chin Ouyang Section Genealogies, Myths, Archives - Stephen M. Hart Swords and Silver Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garca Mrquez - Lois Parkinson Zamora The Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and Garca Mrquez - Donald L Shaw The Earth as Archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo [with Julia King] - Stephen M. Hart Alejo Carpentier's Re-invention of Amrica Latin as Real and Marvellous - The Golden Age Myth in Gabriel Garca Mrquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses - Lorna Robinson Lessons from the Golden Age in Gabriel Garca Mrquez's Living to Tell the Tale - Efran Kristal Section History, Nightmare, Fantasy - Stephen M. Hart History and the Fantastic in Jos Saramago's Fiction - David Henn Magical-Realist Elements in Jos Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex - Humberto Nuez-Faraco Beyond Magic Realism in The Red of His Shadow by Marya Montero - Alejandra Rengifo Cops, Robbers, and Crime and Magical Realism's Jewish Question - Michael Berkowitz Flights of Angela Carter's Transgressive Narratives - Sarah Sceats Section The Politics of Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang Humour and Magical Realism in El reino de este mundo - Evelyn Fishburn Magical Realism and Children's Isabel Allende's La Ciudad de las Bestias - Philip Swanson Unsavoury Representations in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate - Helene Price Not so Innocent - An Israeli Tale of Dorit Rabinyan's Persian Brides - Tsila Ratner Magical Realism as Narrative Evasions in the Work of Nakagami Kenji - Mark Morris Legend, Fantasy and the Birth of the New in `Los funerales de la Mam Grande by Gabriel Garca Mrquez - Robin Fiddian Section Empire, Nation, Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang Magical Nationalism, Lyric Poetry and the W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney - Johnathan Allison Empire and Tribal Magic in a Tuareg Ibrahim al-Kuni's Lunar Eclipse - Stefan Sperl Magical Realism and Nomadic Writing in the Maghreb - John Erickson Of Numerology and Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - Stephanie Jones From The Thousand and One Nights to Magical Postnational Predicament in The Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias KhouryElias Khoury - Wen-Chin Ouyang Guide to Further Reading [with Kenneth Reeds] - Stephen M. Hart Select Bibliography - Stephen M. Hart A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel García Márquez [in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, José Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, María Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, José Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies,University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efraín Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto Núñez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson. The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel García Márquez [in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, José Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, María Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, José Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism.
Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading.

Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies,University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efraín Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto Núñez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson. A Refreshing New Interdisciplinary Slant On Magical Realism As An International Literary Phenomenon Emerging From The Trauma Of Colonial Dispossession--provided By Publisher. Edited By Stephen M. Hart And Wen-chin Ouyang. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [281]-289) And Index.