{"product_id":"postethnic-narrative-criticism-frederick-luis-aldama-9780292722101","title":"Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar Zeta Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie","description":"\u003cp\u003e Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of representing the layered and often contradictory reality of the topsy-turvy, late-capitalist, globalizing world finds equally vivid expression in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Writers and filmmakers such as Oscar \"Zeta\" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie have made brilliant use of magical realism to articulate the trauma of dislocation and the legacies of colonialism that people of color experience in the postcolonial, multiethnic world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. Frederick Aldama engages in theoretically sophisticated readings of Ana Castillo's \u003ci\u003eSo Far from God, \u003c\/i\u003e Oscar \"Zeta\" Acosta's \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Brown Buffalo, \u003c\/i\u003e Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Moor's Last Sigh, \u003c\/i\u003e Julie Dash's \u003ci\u003eDaughters of the Dust, \u003c\/i\u003e and Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi's \u003ci\u003eSammy and Rosie Get Laid.\u003c\/i\u003e Coining the term \"magicorealism\" to characterize these works, Aldama not only creates a postethnic critical methodology for enlarging the contact zone between the genres of novel, film, and autobiography, but also shatters the interpretive lens that traditionally confuses the transcription of the real world, where truth and falsity apply, with narrative modes governed by other criteria. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick Luis Aldama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292722109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292722101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Frederick Luis Aldama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930648559871,"sku":"9780292722101","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bcc373c6-21ef-48cd-8f6b-28170495002a.jpg?v=1766343299","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/postethnic-narrative-criticism-frederick-luis-aldama-9780292722101","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}