Mimesis, Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism

By Jean-Pierre Durix

Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. He argues that, in the New Literatures which are often rooted in hybrid aesthetics, the often decried mimesis must be viewed from a completely different angle. Analysing texts by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Salman Rushdie, Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris and Edouard Glissant, he pleads for the redefinition of 'magic realism' if the term is to retain generic relevance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333732243
• ISBN13: 9780333732243
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"