Overview
Brings together important scholarship on postcolonial literature
Includes essays on American, Caribbean, Latin American, African, and Austrlian literatures
Emphasizes the transformation of magical realism
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Magic, Aesthetics, and Negativity
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Magical Conditions
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Racial and Ethnic Imaginaries
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About this book
The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Richard Perez is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College at the City University of New York, USA. He is the co-editor of two critical anthologies published by Palgrave Macmillan: Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Criticism (2007) and Moments of Magical Realism in U.S. Ethnic Literatures (2012).
Victoria A. Chevalier is Associate Professor of English at Medgar Evers College at The City University of New York, USA. She has published articles in Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism, John Oliver Killens Review, and Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century
Editors: Richard Perez, Victoria A. Chevalier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39835-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39834-7Published: 01 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39837-8Published: 01 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39835-4Published: 30 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 650
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Global Cinema and TV, Latin American Culture