Magical realism and Deleuze : the indiscernibility of difference in postcolonial literature /: the indiscernibility of difference in postcolonial literature. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eva Aldea.
• Other Names: Aldea, Eva
• Contents: Introduction: magical realism: a history of magical realism: typologies and definitions; reality and text: postcolonial or postmodern; realism and the resolution of antinomy -- Gilles Deleuze and magical realism: introduction: the importance of ontology; Deleuze and the univocity of being; Deleuze and redemption; series and systems; series and magical realism; Hallward and the postcolonial problem -- Models of magical realsim: introduction: a model of magical realism: One hundred years of solitude (1967); reading One hundred years of solitude in Deleuzian terms: the state of Macondo; a regime of signs and the apprenticeship of signs; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children (1981): the state as identity; Angela Carter's Nights at the circus (1984): reterritorialization through relation; Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987): the imperative to reterritorialization -- Magical realism and the signs of art: introduction: the magical signs of art; Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002): becoming non-human at sea; André Brink's Devil's valley (1998): what is real and what is magic?; Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry (1989): transcending the flesh through time -- Deleuze and the postcolonial politics of magical realism: introduction: magical realism and the postcolonial; a deleuzian theory of magical realism: the people are missing; Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said (1978): the stuff before the stuff that is history or culture or society or art; Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason (1986): the reality of migrants and nomadic magic; Ben Okri's The famished road (1991): the aesthetic of possibilities.
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.915; Magic realism (Literature); Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Postcolonialism in literature; Literature -- Philosophy; Literature; Commonwealth fiction (English); Fiction; Literature -- Philosophy; Magic realism (Literature); Postcolonialism in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation; Knowledge -- Literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441102966; 1441102965
• Related ISBNs: 9781441109989
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.