Uncertain mirrors : magical realisms in US ethnic literatures / / Jesús Benito, Ana Ma Manzanas ; Begoña Simal.
Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The vol...
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Superior document: | Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ; no. 3 |
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Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical approaches to ethnic American literature ;
no. 3. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material / Louise Erdrich’s “Father’s Milk”: Magical Realism’s Oxymoronic Nature / Mimesis, Realism, and Counter-realisms / Romance, the Imaginary, and Magical Realism / The Crisis of Representation: Post-realism, Postmodernism, Magical Realism / Juxtaposed Realities: Magical Realism and/as Postcolonial Experience / From Identity to Alter-entity: Trans-selving the Self in Magical Realist Narratives / Of a Magical Nature: The Environmental Unconscious / A Negative Sense of Reality / Bibliography / Index / Authors / |
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Summary: | Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term “mimesis” as both a “world-reflecting” and a “world-creating” mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different “location of culture” and “direction of culture;” they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical. |
Audience: | Scholarly and Professional |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1282594427 9786612594427 9042026014 1441617051 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jesús Benito, Ana Ma Manzanas ; Begoña Simal. |