Description
A comprehensive, global, cutting-edge study of magical realism exploring its history, development, and relevance to real-world issues.
About the Author
Kim Anderson Sasser is an Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College, Illinois, where she teaches topics related to global Anglophone literature and postcolonial studies. She is the author of Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism: Strategizing Belonging (2014), as well as numerous other articles and book chapters on magical realism. Christopher Warnes teaches in the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of St John's College. He is a former chair of the Postcolonial Studies Association. He has published widely on magical realism, including Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence (2009). He is currently finishing a book on South African literature after apartheid.
Reviews
'Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transgeographical approach, this book encourages readers to rethink and amplify their knowledge of magical realism ... Recommended.' I. Portaro, Choice Magazine
'the essays collected in this dense and well-edited critical anthology make abundantly clear that magical realism has become a truly cosmopolitan mode of writing in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries ... this volume offers innovative perspectives on a mode of writing that is now entering its second century. Being a coherently structured and effectively written book, Magical Realism and Literature will rapidly become an indispensable research tool for all scholars in the field.' Marc Maufort, Magical Realisms for a Global Twenty-first Century
Book Information
ISBN 9781108426305
Author Christopher Warnes
Format Hardback
Page Count 420
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 720g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 28mm