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.
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Wilson Harris, Joseph Bourne, Port Annie, Kowhai Street, Midnight's Children, New York, Famished Road, Gravity Star, South African, Songs of Enchantment, Uslar Pietri, Ben Okri, David Malouf, Patrick White, Salman Rushdie, Jack Hodgins, Alejo Carpentier, Robert Bringhurst, The Invention of the World, Kojo Laing, Big Indian, Janet Frame, Joe Rosenblatt, Latin America, Miss Hare New!
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Wilson Harris, Joseph Bourne, Port Annie, Kowhai Street, Midnight's Children, New York, Famished Road, Gravity Star, South African, Songs of Enchantment, Uslar Pietri, Ben Okri, David Malouf, Patrick White, Salman Rushdie, Jack Hodgins, Alejo Carpentier, Robert Bringhurst, The Invention of the World, Kojo Laing, Big Indian, Janet Frame, Joe Rosenblatt, Latin America, Miss Hare New!
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- The Famished Road by Ben Okri on 13 pages
- The Invention of the World (New Canadian Library) by Jack Hodgins on 10 pages
- What the Crow Said (Currents in Canadian Literature) by Robert Kroetsch on 10 pages
- The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (New Canadian Library) by Jack Hodgins on 8 pages
- An Imaginary Life by David Malouf on 8 pages
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- "Trading Magic for Fact," Fact for Magic: Myth and Mythologizing in Postmodern Canadian Historical Fiction (Cross/Cultures 67) by Marc Colavincenzo on 4 pages
- Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen through Contemporary Fiction from Britain (Costerus NS 155) by Anne C. Hegerfeldt on page 237
- Rediscovering Magical Realism in the Americas by Shannin Schroeder in Back Matter
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