Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism: Strategizing Belonging

by K. Sasser

Overview

Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349453696
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kim Anderson Sasser is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College where she has taught courses including Modern Global Literature, Magical Realism, and West African Literature. Her areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone fiction, magical realism, cosmopolitanism, and postcolonial literature and theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Magical Realism's Constructive Capacity 2. 'How Are We to Live in the World?': Cosmopolitan Cartographies 3. Vernacular (Hu)manism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road 4. Universal Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence 5. The Family Nexus in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban 6. Uncanny Subjectivity in Helen Oyeymi's The Icarus Girl 7. Making a Spectacle of Itself: Magical Realism as Cosmopolitan Form in the Era of Late Globalization Bibliography Index