Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

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Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground

Written by Maria Takolander
4.85 95,356 ratings
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Magical realism was one of the most significant literary developments in the last century. It has become synonymous with the seductive fictions of writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Jeanette Winterson and Peter Carey. However, the genre has also become known for its theoretical indeterminacy. In fact, exoticist speculation, inspired by the links between magical realist literature and the world's cultural or political margins, has thrown the category into critical disrepute. This book rescues magical realism from misreadings and misdemeanours, tracing the historical development of the literary genre and analysing an original spectrum of magical realist texts from Latin America, Africa, India, Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. It asks such questions as: How did magical realism come to take over the world? What is the nature of its allure? Also, how does the marginal status of its authors inform the genre? Does magical realism have a political agenda? This book uses postcolonial theory to investigate notions of cultural identity and post-structural theory to examine the narrative strategies of magical realism, presenting a comprehensive historical and theoretical overview of the genre and a politically urgent argument about its subversive potentialities.

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Published 2007
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Maria Takolander is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Maria Takolander can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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