Magic Realism - Social Context and Discourse

List of contents

Acknowledgments, Introduction, Realismo maravilloso, Two Canonical Novels of Realismo maravilloso, A Seminal Text of Realismo maravilloso in the Early 1930s, Two Ecuadorian Novels of Realismo maravilloso of the 1970s, Conclusion, Selective Bibliography, Index

About the author

Angulo, Maria-Elena

Summary

Explores how magical realism is used in five modern Latin American novels by authors including Alejo Carpentier and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and considers magical realism as a type of narrative discourse which is specific to Latin America due to the way it elucidates social problems of race, class,

Product details

• Authors: Maria-Elena Angulo, María-Elena Angulo, Angulo Maria-Elena
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1995
• EAN: 9780815311836
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-1183-6
• No. of pages: 124
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; South America, ART / History / General, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -