Full Description
The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.
Contents
1. Proliferations of Being: The Persistence of Magical Realism in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture, Richard Perez & Victoria A. Chevalier.- 2. The Global Life of Genres and the Material Travels of Magical Realism, Mariano Siskind.- 3. Magical Realism, Afrofuturism, and (Afro)surrealism: The Entanglement of Categories in African Fiction, Lydie Moudileno.- 4. South Asian Magical Realism, Roanne L. Kantor.- 5. Magical Realism and the Descriptive Turn, María del Pilar Blanco.- 6. Harboring Spirits: Deontological Time, Magic, and Race in Gods Go Begging by Alfredo Vea, Richard Perez.- 7. 1978, the Year of Magical Thinking: Magical Realism and the Paradoxes of White Gay Ontology in Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance and Edmund White's Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Nicholas F. Radel.- 8. Magical Realism and Indigenous Survivance in Australia: The Fiction of Alexis Wright, Maria Takolander.- 9. Magical Terrestrealism in Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light, Carine M. Mardorossian Angela Veronica Wong.- 10. The Multiplicity of This World: Troubling Origins in Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing, Victoria A. Chevalier.- 11. The Analogical Legacy of Ground Zero: Magical Realism in Post-9/11 Literary and Filmic Trauma Narratives, Eugene Arva.- 12. The Uses of Enchantment: Magic Realism in Toni Morrison's Later Writing, Claudine Raynaud.- 13. Reconstructing Personal Identity and Creating an Alternative National History: Magical Realism and the Marginalised Female Voice in Gioconda Belli's The Inhabited Woman, Md Abu Shahid Abdullah.- 14. Black Magic: Conjure, Syncretism, and Satire in Ishmael Reed, Joshua Lam.- 15. The Magical Book-Within-the Book: I.B. Singer, Bruno Schulz, and Contemporary Jewish Post-Holocaust Fiction, Caroline Rody.- 16. Magical Realism in the Fiction of Bessie Head, Nicole Rizzuto.- 17. The Magical and Paradigmatic Intimacy of Blackness and Indianness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Chad B. Infante.- 18. Fiction on the Verge: Testing Taboos in The Republic of Wine, Keming Liu.- 19. Magical Embodiment: Strategic Deontology in Toni Morrison's Fiction, Johanna X. K. Garvey.- 20. Out of Time: Resisting the Nation in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lorna L. Perez.- 21.'The Deep Root Snapped': Reproductive Violence and Family Un/making in Quan Barry's She Weeps Each Time You're Born, Mai-Linh K. Hong.- 22. Undocumented Magic: Magical Realism as 'Aesthetic Turbulence' in Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper, Marion Rohrleitner.- 23. Flying Over the Abyss: Magical Realism in Salim Barakat's The Captives of Sinjar, Fadia F. Suyoufie.- 24. Pedagogical Magic: Magical Realism's Appeal for the Twenty-First Century Classroom, Kim Anderson Sasser & Rachael Mariboho.- 25. Outrageous Humour: Satirical Magical Realism, Maggie Ann Bowers.- 26. Winged Words and Gods as Birds: Magical Realism and Nature in the Homeric Epic, Lorna Robinson.- 27. Streaming from the Past: Magical Realism as Postmodern Fairy Tale, Dana Del George.
