Magical Realism

Lois Parkinson Zamora is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Houston.Wendy B. Faris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Arlington.

• Acknowledgments xIntroduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s/ Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris 11. Foundations Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism 91925) / Franz Roh 15Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther 33On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) / Alejo Carpentier 75The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) / Alejo Carpentier 89Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) / Angel Flores 109Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) / Louis Leal 119The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms / Amaryl Chanady 125Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature / Scott Simpkins 145II. Theory Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris 163Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers / Theo L. D'haen 191The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism / Rawdon Wilson 209The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem 235Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant 249III. History Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel / John Burt Foster Jr. 267Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call / P. Gabrielle Foreman 285Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd 305Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum / Patricia Merivale 329Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses / Steven F. Walker 347Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer / David Milkies 371IV. Community Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse / Stephen Slemon 407Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson 427The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction / Susan J. Napier 451Roads of "Exquisite Mysterious Muck": The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's Ironweed, John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio," and Donald Barthelme's "City Life" 477Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora 497Selected Bibliography 551Contributors 559Index 563

"This critical collection combines astute and graceful interpretations of well-known literary texts from the Americas while at the same time displaying a rich global understanding of the broad reach of magical realism. Fashioning subtle rethinkings of the magical realist movement, it will shape discussion of postmodern and postcolonial literary histories."-JosÉ David SaldÍvar, University of California, Berkeley "Zamora and Faris persuasively support their claim that magical realism is not only-or even mainly-a Latin American phenomenon, as is usually thought, but a truly international development of the last half century or so and, a major, perhaps the major, component of postmodernist fiction."-Matei Calinescu, Indiana University