Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2012
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, reprint, x + 279 pages, NOT ex-library. Highlighter marks in text / margins of 9 pages (contents pages + 1st chapter); one straightened corner fold. Else book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories, to articulate social injustices and the complexities of identity. The authors analyze works from various ethnic groups, demonstrating how magical realism serves as a powerful tool for cultural expression and political critique. The book is an essential resource for students and scholars of literature, cultural studies, and ethnic studies, offering a comprehensive analysis of how magical realism enriches and complicates the narratives of US ethnic literatures. -- Contents: Introduction: Tracing Magical Irruptions in US Ethnic Literatures / Lyn Di Iorio Sandín & Richard Perez; -- 1. Traumatic Inheritance: The Psychic Life of Magic: -- Trauma, Magic, and Genealogy: Moments of Magical Realism in Daughters of the Stone by Dhalma Llanos-Figueroa and The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid / Lyn Di Iorio Sandín; Jewish Post-Holocaust Fiction and the Magical Realist Turn / Caroline Rody; Flying to Save Her Life: Bad Luck, Bad Choices, and Bad Mothers in Gina B. Nahai's Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith / Ibis Gómez-Vega; -- 2. Sensory Irruptions, Magical Sensibilities: -- Flashes of Transgression: The Fukú, Negative Aesthetics, and the Future in the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz / Richard Perez; Searching for Rhythm and Freedom: African American Magical Realism and the Creation of a Home Country / Angela J. Francis; Of Magical Gourds and Secret Senses: The Uses of Magical Realism in Asian American Literature / Begoña Simal-González; -- 3. Prophetic Practices, Mythic Knowledges: -- "We, the Shamans, Eat Tobacco and Sing": Figures of Shamanic Power in US and Latin America Magical Realism / Wendy Faris; Mythic Realism, Dreams, and Prophecy in James Welch's the Heartsong of Charging Elk / Lori Burlingame; Blood Re(a)d: Native American Literature and the Emergence of the Mythic Real / Allison E. Brown; -- 4. Antinomies: Magic, Memory, and Space: -- Lifting "the Weight of the Continent": Magical Realism on the Northern American Landscape / Shannin Schroeder; Mama Day: Where Gothicism and Magical Realism Meet / Donald J. Reilly; Latinos and Magic Realism: Promised Land or Convoluted History / Román de la Campa; Index -- "This is the first anthology of its kind in two ways: first, it points to a subtle shift away from privileging magical realism as a monolithic category in the literatures of the Americas and second, it focuses this critical approach highlighting the work of writers from all the major minority groups of color - US Latino/a, African American, Native American, and Asian American, Jewish American, or Iranian American ancestry - who deploy magical realist moments to refer to traumatic or suppressed histories. Groundbreaking essays by both established experts and rising scholars offer a myriad of methodologies, including literary, psychoanalytic, and trauma theories; historiography, myth, and mnemonic analyses; religious, anthropological, and Marxist approaches. Magical realist moments conceal and reveal traumatic pasts, suppressed histories, half-known memories, lies, truths, new affinities, and even signposts to the future.".
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ISBN 10: 1137293292 ISBN 13: 9781137293299
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Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ISBN 10: 1137293292 ISBN 13: 9781137293299
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Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ISBN 10: 1137293292 ISBN 13: 9781137293299
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