Moments of magical realism in U.S. ethnic literatures [electronic resource] / edited by Lyn Di Iorio Sandín and Richard Perez.
This is the first anthology of its kind in two ways: first, it points to a subtle shift away from privileging magical realism as a monolithic category in the literatures of the Americas and second, it focuses this critical approach highlighting the work of writers from all the major minority groups...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Summary: | This is the first anthology of its kind in two ways: first, it points to a subtle shift away from privileging magical realism as a monolithic category in the literatures of the Americas and second, it focuses this critical approach highlighting the work of writers from all the major minority groups of color - US Latino/a, African American, Native American, and Asian American, Jewish American, or Iranian American ancestry - who deploy magical realist moments to refer to traumatic or suppressed histories. Groundbreaking essays by both established experts and rising scholars offer a myriad of methodologies, including literary, psychoanalytic, and trauma theories; historiography, myth, and mnemonic analyses; religious, anthropological, and Marxist approaches. Magical realist moments conceal and reveal traumatic pasts, suppressed histories, half-known memories, lies, truths, new affinities, and even signposts to the future. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 279 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137329240 1137329246 9781283947442 1283947447 9781349451135 1349451134 |