A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.

Stephen M. Hart, Wen-chin Ouyang

Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Poltics of Aesthetics [with Wen-chin Ouyang] -
Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Politics of Aesthetics [with Stephen M Hart] - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Section I: Introduction: Genealogies, Myths, Archives -
Swords and Silver Rings: Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez - Lois Parkinson Zamora
The Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and García Márquez - Donald L Shaw
The Earth as Archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo [with Julia King] -
Alejo Carpentier's Re-invention of América Latin as Real and Marvellous -
The Golden Age Myth in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses - Lorna Robinson
Lessons from the Golden Age in Gabriel García Márquez's Living to Tell the Tale - Efraín Kristal
Section II: Introduction: History, Nightmare, Fantasy -
History and the Fantastic in José Saramago's Fiction - David Henn
Magical-Realist Elements in José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex - Humberto Nuñez-Faraco
Beyond Magic Realism in The Red of His Shadow by Marya Montero - Alejandra Rengifo
Cops, Robbers, and Anarcho-terrorists: Crime and Magical Realism's Jewish Question - J F Friedenthal
Flights of Fancy: Angela Carter's Transgressive Narratives - Sarah Sceats
Section III: Introduction: The Politics of Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Humour and Magical Realism in El reino de este mundo - Evelyn Fishburn
Magical Realism and Children's Literature: Isabel Allende's La Ciudad de las Bestias - Philip Swanson
Unsavoury Representations in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate - Helene Price
Not so Innocent - An Israeli Tale of Subversion: Dorit Rabinyan's Persian Brides - Tsila Ratner
Magical Realism as Ideology: Narrative Evasions in the Work of Nakagami Kenji - Mark Morris
Legend, Fantasy and the Birth of the New in `Los funerales de la Mamá Grande by Gabriel García Márquez - Robin Fiddian
Section IV: Introduction: Empire, Nation, Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Magical Nationalism, Lyric Poetry and the Marvellous: W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney - Johnathan Allison
Empire and Tribal Magic in a Tuareg Epic: Ibrahim al-Kuni's Lunar Eclipse - Stefan Sperl
Magical Realism and Nomadic Writing in the Maghreb - John Erickson
Of Numerology and Butterflies: Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - Stephanie Jones
From The Thousand and One Nights to Magical Realism: Postnational Predicament in The Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias KhouryElias Khoury - Wen-Chin Ouyang
Guide to Further Reading [with Kenneth Reeds] - Stephen M. Hart
Select Bibliography - Stephen M. Hart