Catching Butterflies - Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (Paperback)

Magical realism was one of the most significant literary developments in the last century. It has become synonymous with the seductive fictions of writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Jeanette Winterson and Peter Carey. However, the genre has also become known for its theoretical indeterminacy. In fact, exoticist speculation, inspired by the links between magical realist literature and the world's cultural or political margins, has thrown the category into critical disrepute. This book rescues magical realism from misreadings and misdemeanours, tracing the historical development of the literary genre and analysing an original spectrum of magical realist texts from Latin America, Africa, India, Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. It asks such questions as: How did magical realism come to take over the world? What is the nature of its allure? Also, how does the marginal status of its authors inform the genre? Does magical realism have a political agenda? This book uses postcolonial theory to investigate notions of cultural identity and post-structural theory to examine the narrative strategies of magical realism, presenting a comprehensive historical and theoretical overview of the genre and a politically urgent argument about its subversive potentialities.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	European University Studies: Series 18, Comparative Literatu, 116
Release date:	March 2007
Authors:	Maria Takolander
Dimensions:	150 x 210 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	265
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911193-0
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-03-911193-0
Barcode:	9783039111930

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