A companion to magical realism

Introduction : globalization of magical realism : new politics of aesthetics

Magical realism : style and substance / Stephen M. Hart

Magical realism and beyond : ideology of fantasy / Wen-Chin Ouyang

Familiar grounds, novel trajectories : the fantastic, the real and magical realism / Stephen M. Hart and Wen-Chin Ouyang

Pt. I. Genealogies, myths, archives

Introduction / Stephen M. Hart

Swords and silver rings : magical objects in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Lois Parkinson Zamora

presence of myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and Garcia Marquez / Donald L. Shaw

Earth as archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo / Julia King and Stephen M. Hart

Alejo Carpentier's re-invention of America Latina as real and marvellous / Jason Wilson

golden age myth in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One hundred years of solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses / Lorna Robinson

Lessons from the golden age in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Living to tell the tale / Efrain Kristal

Pt. II. History, nightmare, fantasy

Introduction / Stephen M. Hart

History and the fantastic in Jose Saramago's fiction / David Henn

Magical-realist elements in Jose Eustasio River's The vortex / Humberto Nunez-Faraco

Beyond magical realism in The red of his shadow by Mayra Montero / Alejandra Rengifo

Cops, robbers, and anarcho-terrorists : crime and magical realism's Jewish question / Michael Berkowitz

Flights of fancy : Angela Carter's transgressive narratives / Sarah Sceats

Pt. III. politics of magic

Introduction / Wen-Chin Ouyang

Humour and magical realism in El reino de este mundo / Evelyn Fishburn

Magical realism and children's literature : Isabel Allende's La Ciudad de las Bestias / Philip Swanson

Unsavoury representations in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Helene Price

Not so innocent - an Israeli tale of subversion : Dorit Rabinyan's Persian brides / Tsila (Abramovitz) Ratner

Magical realism as ideology : narrative evasions in the work of Nakagami Kenji / Mark Morris

Legend, fantasy and the birth of the new in Los funerales de la Mama Grande by Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Robin Fiddian

Pt. IV. Empire, nation, magic

Introduction / Wen-Chin Ouyang

Magical nationalism, lyric poetry and the marvellous : W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney / Jonathan Allison

Empire and magic in a Tuareg novel : Ibrahim al-Kawni's al-Khusuf (the lunar eclipse) / Stefan Sperl

Magical realism and nomadic writing in the Maghreb / John D. Erickson

Of numerology and butterflies : magical realism in Salman Rusdhie's The satanic verses / Stephanie Jones

From The thousand and one nights to magical realism : postnational predicament in The journey of little Ghandi by Elias Khoury / Wen-Chin Ouyang

Guide to further reading / Stephen M. Hart and Kenneth Reeds

Selected bibliography / Stephen M. Hart.