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Bruno, Paula M.

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Vanishing borders: A cross-national survey of magical realism and the fantastic in short fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Vanishing borders: A cross-national survey of magical realism and the fantastic in short fiction./
Author:	Bruno, Paula M.
Description:	252 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2078.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-06A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3094090

Vanishing borders: A cross-national survey of magical realism and the fantastic in short fiction.
Bruno, Paula M.

Vanishing borders: A cross-national survey of magical realism and the fantastic in short fiction. - 252 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2078.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2003.

Magical realism is generally considered in reference to Latin American literature beginning with the 1960s and the so-called Boom. Its value as a critical term, however, is ambiguous. Initially linked with Art History and Franz Roh's theories in the 1920s, magical realism came to be associated with a direction against the social realism employed by some Latin American writers in the 1950s. Alejo Carpentier, for instance, proposed in his introduction to <italic>El reino de este mundo</italic> (1949) that “lo real maravilloso,” a variation on the term, provides an accurate manner of viewing Latin American history, thus imbuing this concept with a counter-hegemonic force. The ideological bases of the pre-Boom and Boom authors subverted the tenets of scientific rationalism by granting credence to the idea of magic as privileged and superior to the real, and current scholarship tends to focus on the counter-hegemonic value of magical realist writings. However, removed from the context of Latin American letters and placed within the broader category of fantasy and fantastic writing, this departure from rationalist-realist narrative has acquired varying significances when applied to a spectrum of writers and nations.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Modern.

Vanishing borders: A cross-national survey of magical realism and the fantastic in short fiction.
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520 $a Magical realism is generally considered in reference to Latin American literature beginning with the 1960s and the so-called Boom. Its value as a critical term, however, is ambiguous. Initially linked with Art History and Franz Roh's theories in the 1920s, magical realism came to be associated with a direction against the social realism employed by some Latin American writers in the 1950s. Alejo Carpentier, for instance, proposed in his introduction to <italic>El reino de este mundo</italic> (1949) that “lo real maravilloso,” a variation on the term, provides an accurate manner of viewing Latin American history, thus imbuing this concept with a counter-hegemonic force. The ideological bases of the pre-Boom and Boom authors subverted the tenets of scientific rationalism by granting credence to the idea of magic as privileged and superior to the real, and current scholarship tends to focus on the counter-hegemonic value of magical realist writings. However, removed from the context of Latin American letters and placed within the broader category of fantasy and fantastic writing, this departure from rationalist-realist narrative has acquired varying significances when applied to a spectrum of writers and nations.
520 $a While studies of fantasy, the fantastic, and magical realism are voluminous, there are no substantive cross-national studies readily available. In the dissertation I proposed an investigation of such writing as it appears in selected Latin American, Italian, Catalan, and Chicano short fiction. My contribution has attempted to draw the varying strands of these tendencies into a coherent whole. The first chapter outlined the generic-literary ideology of the terms and their definitions. Subsequent chapters illuminated facets of these terms as applied to specific authors. My critical approach takes into consideration the work of theorists such as Michel Foucault and certain tenets of the New Historicism, in addition to cultural studies. My ultimate purpose is to outline and to present a theory of magical realism and the fantastic that will function in a holistic application to a variety of cultural (con)texts.
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