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3S ACAD MY 3 1867 00136 6306 REALISM M U.H .AL Theory, History, Community / * r LOIS PARKINSON ZAMORA AND WENDY R.FARIS, EDITORS ' x Magical Realism '###& J8£i- S3 c-Anno 1778 # # # PHILLIPS • ACADEMY # OLIVER*WENDELL*HOLMES # LIBRARY S altiora . jE ^gj ADAMS BOOK FUND MAGICAL REALISM Theory, History, Community Edited with an Introduction by LOIS PARKINSON ZAMORA AND WENDY B. FARIS DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham & London igg$ Hsn c,a. \ Fourth printing, 2003 © 1995 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Typeset in Berthold Bodoni by Tseng Information Systems. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Magical realism : theory, history, community / edited, with an introduction, by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8223-1611-0 (alk. paper). — isbn 0-8223-1640-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Magic realism (Literature) 2. Fiction—20th century—History and criticism 3. Spanish American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. I. Zamora, Lois Parkinson. II. Faris, Wendy B. PN56.M24M34 1995 809.3 937—dc20 94-47223 CIP To Friendship CONTENTS Acknowledgments x Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s 1 I. Foundations Franz Roh Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925) 15 Irene Guenther Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic 33 Alejo Carpentier On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) 75 The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) 89 Angel Flores Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) 109 Luis Leal Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) 119 Amaryll Chanady The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms 125 Scott Simpkins Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature II. Theory Wendy B. Faris Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction 163 Theo L. D’haen Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers 191 Rawdon Wilson The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism 209 Jon Thiem The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction 235 Jeanne Delbaere-Garant Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English 249 III. History John Burt Foster Jr. Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel 267 P. Gabrielle Foreman Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call 285 viii Contents Richard Todd Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler 305 Patricia Merivale Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight’s Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum 329 Steven F. Walker Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses 347 David Mikics Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer 371 IV. Community Stephen Slemon Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse 407 John Erickson Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Ahdelkebir Khatibi 427 Susan J. Napier The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction 451 Melissa Stewart Roads of “Exquisite Mysterious Muck”: The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy’s Ironweed, John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio,” and Donald Barthelme’s “City Life” 477
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