Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism - Strategizing Belonging

Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.

List of contents

Acknowledgements 1. Magical Realism's Constructive Capacity 2. 'How Are We to Live in the World?': Cosmopolitan Cartographies 3. Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road 4. Universal Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence 5. The Family Nexus in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban 6. Uncanny Subjectivity in Helen Oyeymi's The Icarus Girl 7. Making a Spectacle of Itself: Magical Realism as Cosmopolitan Form in the Era of Late Globalization Bibliography Index

About the author

Kim Anderson Sasser is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College where she has taught courses including Modern Global Literature, Magical Realism, and West African Literature. Her areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone fiction, magical realism, cosmopolitanism, and postcolonial literature and theory.

Summary

Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.

Product details

• Authors: K Sasser, K. Sasser, Kim Anderson Sasser
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349453696
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45369-6
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, World Literature, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature