250 Pages
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Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
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Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial. In a departure from conventional descriptions of magic realism—based primarily on the Latin-American... Read more
Introduction 1. Defining Magic Realism: Historical and Theoretical Foundations 2. Making Magic Realistic: The Realist Code 3. Making Realism Magic: The Supernatural Code 4. Verbal Magic: The Poetics of Ambivalence 5. Juicy Mangos, Sexy Spices: Magic Realism and the Strategies of Exoticist Discourse 6. Of Beasts and Houris: Rushdie’s Magic Realist Characters 7. Magic Realism and the Politics Of Ambivalence 8. Conclusion: A New Trend?
Biography
Ursula Kluwick is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
