Coterminous worlds : : magical realism and contemporary post-colonial literature in English / / edited by Elisa Linguanti, Francesco Casotti & Carmen Concilio.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures ; 39
• TeilnehmendeR: Linguanti, Elisa,; Casotti, Francesco,; Concilio, Carmen,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Editions Rodopi,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves itself into the supernatural an indication that the whole literary project of 'magical realism' is an instrumental and representational form which can be regarded as particularly suitable for reconciling dichotomies and oppositions otherwise experienced as intolerable? Was 'magical realism' an explosive process in cultural dynamics, taking place at intersections of heterogeneous cultures most favourable to the efflorescence of this type of literature? The authors of the various essays - on Patrick White and David Malouf, Ben Okri, Syl Cheney-Coker, Robert Kroetsch, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Jack Hodgins, Salman Rushdie, Janet Frame, Wilson Harris and others - provide a dynamic focus on the reality at stake beneath the surface representations of 'magical realism' in post-colonial literatures.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements / Elsa Linguanti, Francesco Casotti, and Carmen Concilio -- Introduction / Elsa Linguanti -- Notes on Spanish-American Magical Realism / Tommaso Scarano -- The Magic of Language in the novels of Patrick White and David Malouf / Carmen Concilio -- Salman Rushdie's Special Effects / Shaul Bassi -- Worlds, Things, Words Rushdie's style from Grimus to Midnight's Children / Carmen Dell'Aversano -- Representing the Worlds Sanskrit poetics and the making of reality / Alessandro Monti -- The Ragged Edge of Miracles or: A word or two on those Jack Hodgins novels / Lucia Boldrini -- Bees, Bodies, and Magical Miscegenation Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said / Luca Biagiotti -- Myth, Magic, and the Real in Gwendolyn MacEwen's Noman / Biancamaria Rizzardi Perutelli -- Bewildered With Nature The magical-realist in Joe Rosenblatt / Alfredo Rizzardi -- Coterminous Worlds / Robert Bringhurst -- The Magic Reality of Memory Janet Frame's The Carpathians / Isabella Maria Zoppi -- Re-Dreaming the World Ben Okri's shamanic realism / Renato Oliva -- Reality and Magic in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar / PaoIo Bertinetti -- "History never walks here, it runs in any direction" Carnival and magic in the novels of Kojo Laing and Mia Couto / Pietro Deandrea -- Magical Realism Beyond the Wall of Apartheid? Missing Persons by Ivan Vladislavic / Valeria Guidotti -- Wilson Harris A case apart / EIsa Linguanti -- Works Cited / Elsa Linguanti, Francesco Casotti, and Carmen Concilio -- Contributors / Elsa Linguanti, Francesco Casotti, and Carmen Concilio.