03257nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10438510 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100413s2011 nyu sb 001 0deng d 2010015193 9781441109989 (hardcover) 9781441102966 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)703263151 PN56.M24 A63 2011eb 809/.915 22 Aldea, Eva. Magical realism and Deleuze [electronic resource] : the indiscernibility of difference in postcolonial literature / Eva Aldea. New York : Continuum, 2011. xi, 194 p. Continuum literary studies Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: magical realism: a history of magical realism: typologies and definitions; reality and text: postcolonial or postmodern; realism and the resolution of antinomy -- Gilles Deleuze and magical realism: introduction: the importance of ontology; Deleuze and the univocity of being; Deleuze and redemption; series and systems; series and magical realism; Hallward and the postcolonial problem -- Models of magical realsim: introduction: a model of magical realism: One hundred years of solitude (1967); reading One hundred years of solitude in Deleuzian terms: the state of Macondo; a regime of signs and the apprenticeship of signs; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children (1981): the state as identity; Angela Carter's Nights at the circus (1984): reterritorialization through relation; Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987): the imperative to reterritorialization -- Magical realism and the signs of art: introduction: the magical signs of art; Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2002): becoming non-human at sea; Andr�e Brink's Devil's valley (1998): what is real and what is magic?; Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry (1989): transcending the flesh through time -- Deleuze and the postcolonial politics of magical realism: introduction: magical realism and the postcolonial; a deleuzian theory of magical realism: the people are missing; Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said (1978): the stuff before the stuff that is history or culture or society or art; Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason (1986): the reality of migrants and nomadic magic; Ben Okri's The famished road (1991): the aesthetic of possibilities. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 Criticism and interpretation. Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 Knowledge Literature. Magic realism (Literature) Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Commonwealth fiction (English) History and criticism. Postcolonialism in literature. Literature Philosophy. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Continuum literary studies. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10438510 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 243500 243500