Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie

Frederick Luis Aldama

Published by University of Texas Press 2003

Postethnic Narrative Criticism

Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie

Frederick Luis Aldama

https://doi.org/10.7560/705166

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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.

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 So Far from God, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, and The Moor's Last Sigh, Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, and Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi's Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. 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.

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Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University.

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In this exciting new book, Frederick Luis Aldama has done an outstanding job of remapping ‘magical realism.'

— Werner Sollors

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction RETHREADING THE MAGICAL REALIST DEBATE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
One REBELLIOUS AESTHETIC ACTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Two DASH’S AND KUREISHI’S REBELLIOUS MAGICOREELS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Three OSCAR ‘‘ZETA’’ ACOSTA’S DE-FORMED AUTO-BIO-GRAPHÉ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Four ANA CASTILLO’S (EN) GENDERED MAGICOREALISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Five SALMAN RUSHDIE’S FOURTHSPACE NARRATIVE RE-CONQUISTAS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Coda MAPPING THE POSTETHNIC CRITICAL METHOD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 157

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Published: September 15, 2009
ISBN: 9780292797703