Información General

• Autores: Lyn Di Iorio Sandín (ed. lit.), Richard Pérez (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Palgrave Macmillan Reino Unido
• Año de publicación: 2012
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-1-137-29329-9
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Resumen

• A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction : Tracing magical irruptions in US ethnic literatures

    Lyn Di Iorio Sandín, Richard Pérez

    págs. 1-15

    

  • Part I: Traumatic inheritances : the physic life of magic

    • Trauma, magic, and genealogy: moments of magical realism in "Daughters of the Stone" by Dhalma Llanos-Figueroa and "The autobiography of my mother" by Jamaica Kincaid

      Lyn Di Iorio Sandín

      págs. 20-38

      

    • Jewish post-Holocaust fiction and the magical realist turn

      Caroline Rody

      págs. 39-63

      

    • Flying to save her life: bad luck, bad choices, and bad mothers in Gina B. Nahai's "Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith"

      Ibis Gómez-Vega

      págs. 65-88

      

  • Part II: Sensory irruptions, magical sensibilities

    • Flashes of transgression: the fukú, negative aesthetics, and the future in "The brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz

      Richard Pérez

      págs. 91-108

      

    • Searching for rhythm and freedom: African American magical realism and the creation of a home country

      Angela J. Francis

      págs. 109-121

      

    • Of magical gourds and secret senses: the use of magical realism in Asian American literature

      Begoña Simal

      págs. 123-152

      

  • Part III: Prophetic practices, mythic knowledges

    • "We, the shamans, eat tobacco and sing": figures of shamanic power in US and Latin American magical realism

      Wendy B. Faris

      págs. 155-174

      

    • Mythic realism, dreams, and prophecy in James Welch's "The heartsong of Charging Elk"

      Lori Burlingame

      págs. 175-191

      

    • Blood re(a)d: Native American literature and the emergence of the mythic real

      Allison E. Brown

      págs. 193-210

      

  • Part IV: Antinomies : magic, memory, and space

    • Lifting "the weight of the continent": magical realism on the North American landscape

      Shannin Schroeder

      págs. 213-240

      

    • Mama day: where gothicism and magical realism meet

      Donald J. Reilly

      págs. 241-258

      

    • Latinos and magic realism: promised land or convoluted history

      Román de la Campa

      págs. 259-268