Uncertain mirrors : magical realisms in US ethnic literatures

Autor: Jesús Benito , Ana Ma Manzanas , Begoña Simal
Rok: 2009
ISBN: 9789042026001
NKP-CNB: bod001-000656018
OKCZID: 110734938

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
BENITO SÁNCHEZ, Jesús, MANZANAS CALVO, Ana María, ed. a SIMAL GONZÁLEZ, Begoña, ed. Uncertain mirrors: magical realisms in US ethnic literatures [elektronický zdroj]. New York: Rodopi, 2009. viii, 265 p. Critical approaches to ethnic American literature, no. 3.

Anotace

Uncertain Mirrors realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno's concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term "mimesis" as both a "world-reflecting" and a "world-creating" mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As Uncertain Mirrors explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different "location of culture" and "direction of culture;" they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical.

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