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Charlotte Rogers - Surprising New Life of Magical Realism, Inbunden

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Surprising New Life of Magical Realism

Marvelous Ecologies and Postnatural Disasters in Latin America

Av Charlotte Rogers

949 kr

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-06
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226854953
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Charlotte Rogers is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. Her books include Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics.

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“Rogers argues that the marvelous is still integral to the region’s twenty-first-century fiction, particularly in light of postnatural disasters. Providing remarkable new readings of twentieth-century canonical authors—such as García Márquez, Carpentier, Ferré, and Cabrera—and weaving them together with twenty-first-century literature by Fernanda Melchor, Carlos Fonseca, Samanta Schweblin, and Rita Indiana, Rogers highlights magical realism’s transformation with lingering consequences for thinking about both literature and the environment.”

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