Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America

Iconoclastic in spirit, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in LatinAmerica is the first study of affect and emotion in magical realist literature. Against the grain of a vast body of scholarship, it argues that magical realism is neither exotic commodity nor postcolonial resistance, but an art form fueled by a search for spaces of wonder in a disenchanted world. Linking the rise and fall of magical realism and kindred narrative forms to the shifting value of wonder as an emotional experience, this thought-provoking study proposes a radical new approach to canonical novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude. Received as “one of the most convincing manifestations of the ‘turn to affect’ in contemporary Latin American critical thought,” Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions draws on affect theory, the history of emotions, and new materialism to reframe key questions in Latin American literature and culture. Magical Realism And The History Of The Emotions In Latin America Rethinks The Rise And Fall Of Magical Realism In Latin America In Light Of The Cultural History Of The Emotions And In Conversation With Contemporary Theories Of Affect. It Explores How Twentieth-century Magical Realist Narrative Reimagines Public And Collective Forms Of Feeling, In Particular The Colonial History Of Wonder In The Wake Of The Voyages To The New World -- Introduction: Worldly Wonder -- Wonder In The Colonial Heart. The Intermittence Of The Marvelous; Columbus's First Journal And The Materiality Of The Emotions; Colonial Chronicles As Archives Of Feelings -- The Afterlives Of Feelings. Alejo Carpentier's Lo Real Maravilloso Americano And The Colonial History Of Wonder; The Afterlives Of Feelings: Wonder As Palimpsest In Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años De Soledad; In The Graveyards Of Magical Realism: The Dissafection Of The Marvelous And César Aira's El Mago. Jerónimo Arellano. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in light of the cultural history of the emotions and in conversation with contemporary theories of affect. It explores how twentieth-century magical realist narrative reimagines public and collective forms of feeling, in particular the colonial history of wonder in the wake of the voyages to the New World"-- Proporcionado por el editor "Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in light of the cultural history of the emotions and in conversation with contemporary theories of affect. It explores how twentieth-century magical realist narrative reimagines public and collective forms of feeling, in particular the colonial history of wonder in the wake of the voyages to the New World" -- Provided by publisher.