Mimesis, Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312215859)

Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. He argues that, in the New Literatures which are often rooted in hybrid aesthetics, the often decried mimesis must be viewed from a completely different angle. Analysing texts by Gabriel Garc? M疵quez, Salman Rushdie, Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris and Edouard Glissant, he pleads for the redefinition of 'magic realism' if the term is to retain generic relevance.

Author: J. Durix
ISBN-10: 0312215851
ISBN-13: 9780312215859
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/11/1998
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.83h x 5.72w x 0.91d