Год выпуска: 2010
Автор: Jane Simon
Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Страниц: 236
ISBN: 9783838366388
Описание The term, Magic Realism, has been used to describe a number of different literary works in recent years. The fact that it often occurs in post-colonial countries, or in the writings of disadvantaged populations in the first world, is significant. Here is a book that defines the term, gives its history, and explores its use in the novels of Latin America, the French Caribbean and other post-colonial and first world countries. With incisive analysis of the literary works, as well as of critical works on allegory and of the sources that have been written to date on magic realism, it clarifies what the authors intended by the use of this puzzling literary phenomenon. The analysis includes works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabelle Allende, Miguel Angle Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Maryse Conde, Jose Donoso, Janet Frame, Carlos Fuentes, Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Juan Rulfo, Salmon Rushdie, and Simone Schwartz-Bart. This book will interest students of history, literature, and of the... |
