Magical Realism and Literature
魔幻现实主义与文学

Christopher Warnes, University of Cambridge
Cambridge Critical Concepts
9781108426305| Hardback| USD 120
350pp  2020/4
图书简介：
魔幻现实主义文学可以说是最著名的写作体裁之一。它混合了可能与不可能、真实与幻想，为了拉丁美洲、非洲、亚洲以及其他地区的创作二十世纪晚期的小说注入能量。阿列霍·卡彭蒂尔、加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯、伊莎贝尔·阿连德、萨尔曼·拉什迪、本·奥克里等作家利用叙事现实主义的资源来表现民俗、信仰和幻想。这本书为魔幻现实主义研究提供了新的视角，详细探讨了它的全球起源和发展。包括魔法、现实主义、差异性、原始主义、人种学、民族性、空间和时间。
 
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.
• Offers new perspectives on the history of ideas related to magic, realism, primitivism, ethnography, selfhood, time and space
• Presents a robust global perspective on the development of magical realism in many particular regions
• Generates new insights into topics of major contemporary relevance, including religion, trauma, film, ecology, diaspora, the city, and the literary market
章节内容：
Introduction Christopher Warnes and Kim Anderson Sasser; Part I. Origins: 1. Magic and otherness Christopher Warnes; 2. Primitivism, ethnography, and magical realism Erik Camayd-Freixas; 3. Magical realism and indigeneity: from appropriation to resurgence Maggie Ann Bowers; 4. Insubstantial selves in magical realism in the Americas Lois Parkinson Zamora; 5. Space, time and magical realism Ato Quayson; Part II. Development: 6. Magical realism and the 'boom' of the Latin American novel Ignacio López-Calvo; 7. Magical realism: the European trajectory Theo D'haen; 8. Beautiful lies: magical realism in Australasia Maria Takolander; 9. Myth, orality and the African novel Graham Riach; 10. Breaking boundaries: the tale of North American magical realism Shannin Schroeder; 11. East Asian magical realism Ben Holgate; 12. Magic and realism in South Asia Sourit Bhattacharya; 13. Fantastic cohabitations: magical realism in Arabic and Hebrew Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh); Part III. Application: 14. From the inside of belief: magic and religion Kim Anderson Sasser; 15. Word, image, and cinematic ekphrasis in magical realist trauma narratives Eugene Arva; 16. Scheherazade in the diaspora: home and the city in Arab migrant fiction Jumana Bayeh; 17. Ecomagical realism in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and Linda Hogan's People of the Whale Laura A. Pearson; 18. Proximate magic: magical realism in Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 Wendy Faris and Miho Nonaka; 19. Magic and the literary market Ursula Kluwick; Bibliography; Index.
学术水平：Graduate Students, academic researchers
读者群：literary theory, Latin American literature