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The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism: Marvelous Ecologies and Postnatural Disasters in Latin America

The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism: Marvelous Ecologies and Postnatural Disasters in Latin America

Rogers, Charlotte

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 6, 2027

ISBN10: 0226854957
ISBN13: 9780226854953
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jan 6 2027
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Language: English

An exploration of magical realism's contemporary resurgence, as writers attempt to capture the realities of climate change.

What literary mode could possibly convey the extent of today's climate catastrophes? In The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism, Charlotte Rogers argues that the answer is magical realism, a genre whose defining characteristic is to make the unbelievable an unremarkable part of everyday life. She pairs classic works by Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, and Rosario Ferré with contemporary novels by Carlos Fonseca, Fernanda Melchor, and Rita Indiana to show how the techniques of magical realism enable new approaches to scenes of environmental collapse and social injustice. Challenging widespread accounts of the genre's decline, Rogers shows that the signature aesthetics of magical realism--the marvelous, the amazing, the strange--are integral to twenty-first-century fiction.

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