Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence

By Christopher Warnes

Book Overview

This book rethinks the origins and nature of magical realism and provides detailed readings of key novels by Asturias, Carpentier, Garc a M rquez, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137440864
• ISBN13: 9781137440860
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"