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Acknowledgments x

Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s/ Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris 1

1. Foundations

Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism 91925) / Franz Roh 15

Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther 33

On the Marvelous Real in America (1949) / Alejo Carpentier 75

The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975) / Alejo Carpentier 89

Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955) / Angel Flores 109

Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967) / Louis Leal 119

The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms / Amaryl Chanady 125

Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature / Scott Simpkins 145

II. Theory

Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction / Wendy B. Faris 163

Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers / Theo L. D'haen 191

The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism / Rawdon Wilson 209

The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction / Jon Thiem 235

Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant 249

III. History

Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel / John Burt Foster Jr. 267

Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call / P. Gabrielle Foreman 285

Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd 305

Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum / Patricia Merivale 329

Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses / Steven F. Walker 347

Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer / David Milkies 371

IV. Community

Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse / Stephen Slemon 407
Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson 427

The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction / Susan J. Napier 451

Roads of "Exquisite Mysterious Muck": The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's Ironweed, John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio," and Donald Barthelme's "City Life" 477

Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora 497

Selected Bibliography 551

Contributors 559

Index 563