Ordinary enchantments : magical realism and the remystification of narrative
This study investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction. It defines its characteristics and narrative techniques and proposes a new theory to explain its significance. Works by Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison and Ben Okri are discussed.
Print Book, English, 2004
Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, 2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 323 pages ; 24 cm
9780826514417, 9780826514424, 0826514413, 0826514421
51581784
1. Definitions and locations: magical realism between modern and postmodern fiction
2. "From a far source within": magical realism as defocalized narrative
3. Encoding the ineffable: a textual poetics for magical realism
4. "Along the knife-edge of change": magical realism and the post-colonial dynamics of alterity
5. "Women and women and women": a feminine element in magical realism
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