Realismo M¿gico y Primitivismo

By Erik Camayd-Freixas

A fresh reading and close analysis of The Kingdom of This World, Men of Maize, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, Realismo m gico y primitivismo brings anthropology, modern art, intellectual history, reception aesthetics and semiotics to bear on the texts in question. Camayd-Freixas develops a theory of magical realism along ethnological lines as a meaningful critical concept in Latin American literary history.
The author documents the historical relationship between magical realism and primitivism in Europe and Latin America. He argues that magical realism is a unity of the primitive viewpoint, the transculturation of reality-norms, and the construction of historical allegory; and examines the problems and development of magical realism in the work of leading Latin American writers. (Text in Spanish).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761811028
• ISBN13: 9780761811022
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"