Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction

History, Nation, and Narration
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0754-4
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 250 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Studies in English Literatures

This study delineates the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). It first traces the development of magical realism from its origins in European painting to its appropriation into literature by European and Latin American writers. It then explores contested definitions of magical realism and the critical questions surrounding them and analyzes the relationship between the paradigmatic turn in postcolonial literatures and the concomitant rise of magical realism in Third World countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Can, Taner

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Novel Beginnings: The Novel and the Nation
1. From Painting to Literature: A Genealogy of Magical Realism
2. From Latin America to the Globe: DissemiNation of Magical
Realism and the Postcolonial
3. (Re)claiming Indian Past(s): Postmodern Historiography and
Magical Realism in the Indian English Novel
4. The Yarns of the Black Continent: Magical Realism in the African
English Novel
Conclusion
Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Taner Can is an instructor of English at the Ankara University School of Foreign Languages. His research interests include modern fiction, cultural studies, and literary theory.