Author : Christopher Warnes
Release : 2009-03-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 437/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel by : Christopher Warnes
Download or read book Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel written by Christopher Warnes. This book was released on 2009-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, García Márquez, Rushdie, and Okri. Identifying two different strands of the mode, one characterized by faith, the other by irreverence, Warnes makes available a new vocabulary for the discussion of magical realism.