ENGLISH

Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction: History, Nation, and Narration

By Taner Can

Book information

Publisher
ibidem Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9783838267548
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1215596 bytes)
Series
Studies in English Literatures
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-15 05:29:45
Literary Criticism; Nonfiction; LIT004120

Description

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.

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