Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction: History, Nation, and Narration (Studies in English Literatures, 19) - Softcover

Can, Taner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838207548 ISBN 13: 9783838207544

Publisher: ibidem Press, 2015

Synopsis

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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Taner Can is an instructor of English at the Ankara University School of Foreign Languages. His research interests include modern fiction, cultural studies, and literary theory.

About this edition

• Publisher: ibidem Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3838207548
• ISBN 13: 9783838207544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250