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Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America

Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1684485843
ISBN13: 9781684485840
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.09 Depth: 8.93
Language: English
Newly available in paperback, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America is the first study of affect and emotion in magical realist literature. Against the grain of a vast body of scholarship, it argues that magical realism is neither exotic commodity nor postcolonial resistance, but an art form fueled by a search for wonder in a disenchanted world. Linking magical realism's rise and fall to the shifting value of wonder as an emotional experience, Arellano proposes a radical new approach to canonical novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude. Received as one of the most convincing manifestations of the 'turn to affect' in contemporary Latin American critical thought, this iconoclastic study draws on affect theory, the history of emotions, and new materialism to reframe key questions in Latin American literature and culture.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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