Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel

1. Introduction: Re-thinking Magical Realism
Christopher Warnes

2. Magical Realism as Postcolonial Romance
Christopher Warnes

3. Faith, Idealism, and Irreverence in Asturias, Borges, and Carpentier
Christopher Warnes

4. Magical Realism and Defamiliarisation in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Christopher Warnes

5. Migrancy and Metamorphosis in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses
Christopher Warnes

6. The African World View in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
Christopher Warnes

7. Conclusion
Christopher Warnes

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory