Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century

Richard Perez is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College at the City University of New York, USA.  He is the co-editor of two critical anthologies published by Palgrave Macmillan: Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Criticism (2007) and Moments of Magical Realism in U.S. Ethnic Literatures (2012).  Victoria A. Chevalier is Associate Professor of English at Medgar Evers College at The City University of New York, USA.  She has published articles in Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism, John Oliver Killens Review, and Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.

“The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty- First Century, as an endeavor of monumental architectural complexity, offers a vast survey of the present state of the magical realist aesthetic on the global stage. … The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty- First Century will prove indispensable and benchmark instruments for the scholars who seek to assess the evolution of a literary aesthetic prompting us to continuously question our perception of what constitutes the real.” (Marc Maufort, Recherche littéraire - Literary Research, Vol. 37, 2021)

• 1. Proliferations of Being: The Persistence of Magical Realism in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture, Richard Perez & Victoria A. Chevalier.- 2. The Global Life of Genres and the Material Travels of Magical Realism, Mariano Siskind.- 3. Magical Realism, Afrofuturism, and (Afro)surrealism: The Entanglement of Categories in African Fiction, Lydie Moudileno.- 4. South Asian Magical Realism, Roanne L. Kantor.- 5. Magical Realism and the Descriptive Turn, María del Pilar Blanco.- 6. Harboring Spirits: Deontological Time, Magic, and Race in Gods Go Begging by Alfredo Vea, Richard Perez.- 7. 1978, the Year of Magical Thinking: Magical Realism and the Paradoxes of White Gay Ontology in Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance and Edmund White’s Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Nicholas F. Radel.- 8. Magical Realism and Indigenous Survivance in Australia: The Fiction of Alexis Wright, Maria Takolander.- 9. Magical Terrestrealism in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, Carine M. Mardorossian  Angela Veronica Wong.- 10. The Multiplicity of This World: Troubling Origins in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, Victoria A. Chevalier.- 11. The Analogical Legacy of Ground Zero: Magical Realism in Post-9/11 Literary and Filmic Trauma Narratives, Eugene Arva.- 12. The Uses of Enchantment: Magic Realism in Toni Morrison’s Later Writing, Claudine Raynaud.- 13. Reconstructing Personal Identity and Creating an Alternative National History: Magical Realism and the Marginalised Female Voice in Gioconda Belli’s The Inhabited Woman, Md Abu Shahid Abdullah.- 14. Black Magic: Conjure, Syncretism, and Satire in Ishmael Reed, Joshua Lam.- 15. The Magical Book-Within-the Book:  I.B. Singer, Bruno Schulz, and Contemporary Jewish Post-Holocaust Fiction, Caroline Rody.- 16. Magical Realism in the Fiction of Bessie Head, Nicole Rizzuto.- 17. The Magical and Paradigmatic Intimacy of Blackness and Indianness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Chad B. Infante.- 18. Fiction on the Verge: Testing Taboos in The Republic of Wine, Keming Liu.- 19. Magical Embodiment: Strategic Deontology in Toni Morrison’s Fiction, Johanna X. K. Garvey.- 20. Out of Time: Resisting the Nation in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lorna L. Perez.- 21.‘The Deep Root Snapped’: Reproductive Violence and Family Un/making in Quan Barry’s She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, Mai-Linh K. Hong.- 22. Undocumented Magic: Magical Realism as ‘Aesthetic Turbulence’ in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper, Marion Rohrleitner.- 23. Flying Over the Abyss: Magical Realism in Salim Barakat's The Captives of Sinjar, Fadia F. Suyoufie.- 24. Pedagogical Magic: Magical Realism’s Appeal for the Twenty-First Century Classroom, Kim Anderson Sasser & Rachael Mariboho.- 25. Outrageous Humour: Satirical Magical Realism, Maggie Ann Bowers.- 26.Winged Words and Gods as Birds: Magical Realism and Nature in the Homeric Epic, Lorna Robinson.- 27. Streaming from the Past: Magical Realism as Postmodern Fairy Tale, Dana Del George.