Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction write by Taner Can. This book was released on 2014-06-01. Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: 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). The main focus of attention lies on the ways in which the novelists in question have exploited the potentials of magical realism to represent their hybrid cultural and national identities. To provide the necessary historical context for the discussion, the author first traces the development of magical realism from its origins in European Painting to its appropriation into literature by European and Latin American writers and explores the contested definitions of magical realism and the critical questions surrounding them. He then proceeds to analyze the relationship between the paradigmatic turn that took place in postcolonial literatures in the 1980s and the concomitant rise of magical realism as the literary expression of Third World countries.
Climate and Crises
Climate and Crises - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate and Crises write by Ben Holgate. This book was released on 2019-01-31. Climate and Crises available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Climate and Crises: Magical Realism as Environmental Discourse makes a dual intervention in both world literature and ecocriticism by examining magical realism as an international style of writing that has long-standing links with environmental literature. The book argues that, in the era of climate change when humans are facing the prospect of species extinction, new ideas and new forms of expression are required to address what the novelist Amitav Gosh calls a "crisis of imagination." Magical realism enables writers to portray alternative intellectual paradigms, ontologies and epistemologies that typically contest the scientific rationalism derived from the European Enlightenment, and the exploitation of natural resources associated with both capitalism and imperialism. Climate and Crises explores the overlaps between magical realism and environmental literature, including their respective transgressive natures that dismantle binaries (such as human and non-human), a shared biocentric perspective that focuses on the inter-connectedness of all things in the universe, and, frequently, a critique of postcolonial legacies in formerly colonised territories. The book also challenges conventional conceptions of magical realism, arguing they are often influenced by a geographic bias in the construction of the orthodox global canon, and instead examines contemporary fiction from Asia (including China) and Australasia, two regions that have been largely neglected by scholarship of the narrative mode. As a result, the monograph modifies and expands our ideas of what magical realist fiction is.
The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature
The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature write by Ato Quayson. This book was released on 2012-01-12. The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postcolonial studies is attentive to cultural differences, marginalisation and exclusion. Such studies pay equal attention to the lives and conditions of various racial minorities in the West, as well as to regional, indigenous forms of representation around the world as being distinct from a dominant Western tradition. With the consolidation of the field in the past forty years, the need to establish the terms by which we might understand the sources of postcolonial literary history is more urgent now than ever before. The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature is the first major collaborative overview of the field. A mix of geographic and thematic chapters allows for different viewpoints on postcolonial literary history. Chapters cover the most important national traditions, as well as more comparative geographical and thematic frameworks. This major reference work will set the future agenda for the field, whilst also synthesising its development for scholars and students.
Magical Realism and the Fantastic
Magical Realism and the Fantastic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Realism and the Fantastic write by Amaryll Beatrice Chanady. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Magical Realism and the Fantastic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every reader of literature interprets the literary text on the basis of information they have acquired from previous reading, and according to norms they have established, either consciously or not, with regard to a work of literature. In this study, originally published in 1985, the author clarifies the concepts of magical realism and the fantastic, and establishes a series of guidelines that will allow us to distinguish between the two similar yet independent modes. The reader will thus be able to identify the implicit framework upon which the author of the fantastic and of magical realism bases their text.
Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality
Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality write by Sylvia Hadjetian. This book was released on 2014-03-20. Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1970s, there has been increasing concern with the impact of (post)colonialism on British identities and culture. White Teeth by Zadie Smith is the story of three families from three different cultural backgrounds, set mostly in multicultural London. The first part of this book provides an overview of the former British Empire, the Commonwealth and the history of Bangladesh, Jamaica and the Jews in England as relevant to White Teeth. Following this, the role of the (former) centre of London will be presented. Subsequently, definitions and postcolonial theories (Bhabha, Said etc.) shall be discussed.The focus of this book is on life in multicultural London. The main aspects analysed in these chapters deal with identity, the location where the novel is set and racism. A further aim of the book is a comparison between the fictional world of White Teeth and reality. One chapter is devoted to the question of magic realism and the novel's position between two worlds.In a summary, the writer hopes to convince the readers of the fascination felt when reading the novel and when plunging into the buzzing streets of contemporary multicultural London.
