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1 online resource (194 pages) |
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Continuum literary studies |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: magical realism: a history of magical realism: typologies and definitions; reality and text: postcolonial or postmodern; realism and the resolution of antinomy -- Gilles Deleuze and magical realism: introduction: the importance of ontology; Deleuze and the univocity of being; Deleuze and redemption; series and systems; series and magical realism; Hallward and the postcolonial problem -- Models of magical realsim: introduction: a model of magical realism: One hundred years of solitude (1967); reading One hundred years of solitude in Deleuzian terms: the state of Macondo; a regime of signs and the apprenticeship of signs; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children (1981): the state as identity; Angela Carter's Nights at the circus (1984): reterritorialization through relation; Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987): the imperative to reterritorialization -- Magical realism and the signs of art: introduction: the magical signs of art; Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002): becoming non-human at sea; André Brink's Devil's valley (1998): what is real and what is magic?; Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry (1989): transcending the flesh through time -- Deleuze and the postcolonial politics of magical realism: introduction: magical realism and the postcolonial; a deleuzian theory of magical realism: the people are missing; Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said (1978): the stuff before the stuff that is history or culture or society or art; Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason (1986): the reality of migrants and nomadic magic; Ben Okri's The famished road (1991): the aesthetic of possibilities |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Knowledge -- Literature
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast |
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Magic realism (Literature)
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Literature
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Commonwealth fiction (English)
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Fiction
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Magic realism (Literature)
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441102966 |
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1441102965 |
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