Magic Realism - Social Context and Discourse (Hardcover)

Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five modern Latin American novels. Starting with two canonical texts of magic realism, Alejo Carpentier's "El reino de este mundo "(1949) and Garcia Marquez's "Cien a-os de soledad "(1967), the author argues that "Los Sangurimas" (1934), by the Ecuadorian Jos de la Cuadra, is a seminal work due to de la Cuadra's new approach to reality and his use of marvelous and hyperbolic elements. The author shows the continuation of this example in Ecuador in Demetrio Aguilera-Malta's "Siete lunas y siete serpientes "(1970) and Alicia Y nez Coss'o's "Bruna, soroche y los tios "(1972), which elucidate social problems of race, class, and gender through use of magic realism.
In selecting for her study well-known writers such as Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, and others, less well-known such as de la Cuadra, Aguilera-Malta and Y nez Coss'o, the author demonstrates that both canonical and noncanonical writers for many years have been working on this new way of writing to interpret in fiction the highly complex Latin American reality.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Latin American Studies
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	Maria-Elena Angulo
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	124
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-1183-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8153-1183-4
Barcode:	9780815311836

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