Magical realism and the postcolonial novel : between faith and irreverence / Christopher Warnes.

Author: Warnes, Christopher.

Imprint:Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.

Descriptionvii, 189 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:1. Introduction: re-thinking magical realism -- 2. Magical realism as postcolonial romance -- 3. Faith, idealism, and irreverence in Asturias, Borges, and Carpentier -- 4. Magical realism and defamiliarisation in Gabriel García Márquez's 'One hundred years of solitude' -- 5. Migrancy and metamorphosis in Salman Rushdie's 'The satanic verses' -- 6. The African world view in Ben Okri's 'The famished road' -- 7. Conclusion.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.167-179) and index.

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