Magical Realism and Deleuze - The Indiscernibility of Difference in Postcolonial Literature (Paperback, NIPPOD)

Since the success of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the following Latin American literary 'boom' of the late sixties and seventies, magical realism has had a steady following, an international influence and become established as a literary genre. Yet its definition has remained vague.Through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, this study rethinks magical realism, making an argument for using Deleuzian readings of literature in general while dealing with the implications of a new approach for prevalent postcolonial studies in particular.With One Hundred Years of Solitude used as a model, Eva Aldea takes a Deleuzian approach to major anglophone works by Rushdie, Okri, Morrison, and Ghosh. She shows how the power of magical realism lies not, as is commonly held, in its subversion of the real and the magical, but in allowing the two to remain radically different and yet indiscernible at the same time, challenging existing readings of the genre.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	September 2012
Authors:	Eva Aldea
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	NIPPOD
ISBN-13:	978-1-4411-3543-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-4411-3543-X
Barcode:	9781441135438

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