TY - BOOK ID - 66115048 TI - Magical realism and literature AU - Sasser, Kim AU - Warnes, Christopher PY - 2020 SN - 1108426301 9781108426305 9781108445023 9781108551601 1108551602 1316997979 1108621759 1108445020 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Magic realism (Literature) KW - Fiction KW - History and criticism KW - 82-31 KW - 82"20 literatuur KW - 82-31 Roman KW - Roman KW - History and criticism. KW - Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism KW - Magical realism (Literature) KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Surrealism KW - Magic in literature KW - Marvelous, The, in literature KW - Realism in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66115048 AB - Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time. ER -