the indiscernibility of difference in postcolonial literature Aldea, Eva. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. nyu New York Continuum 2011 monographic eng

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xi, 194 p. 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. Eva Aldea. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 PN56.M24 A63 2011eb 809/.915 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10438510 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10438510 CaPaEBR 100413 ebr10438510