Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen Through Contemporary Fiction from BritainMagic realism has long been treated as a phenomenon restricted to postcolonial literature. Drawing on works from Britain, Lies that Tell the Truth compellingly shows how magic realist fiction can be produced also at what is usually considered to be the cultural centre without forfeiting the mode's postcolonial attitude and aims. A close analysis of works by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, Robert Nye and others reveals how the techniques of magic realism generate a complex critique of the West's rational-empirical worldview from within a Western context itself. Understanding magic realism as a fictional analogue of anthropology and sociology, Lies that Tell the Truth reads the mode as a frequently humorous but at the same time critical investigation into people's attempts to make sense of their world. By laying bare the manifold strategies employed to make meaning, magic realist fiction indicates that knowledge and reality cannot be reduced to hard facts, but that people's dreams and fears, ideas, stories and beliefs must equally be taken into account. |
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... XII/2 (1986), 301- Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home, Ithaca: NY, and London, 1977, 127 and 108. terminological complexities – which might be grounds for abandoning the 25. Chapter 1 The Critical Debate: an Overview.
... XII/2 (1986), 301- Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home, Ithaca: NY, and London, 1977, 127 and 108. terminological complexities – which might be grounds for abandoning the 25. Chapter 1 The Critical Debate: an Overview.
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... Carpentier , almost at the same time , dust off the old tag from the avant - garde years . ( 109 ) It is highly ... Carpentier's lo real 14 First as " Realismo mágico : Problemas de la pintura europea más reciente ” ( Revista de ...
... Carpentier , almost at the same time , dust off the old tag from the avant - garde years . ( 109 ) It is highly ... Carpentier's lo real 14 First as " Realismo mágico : Problemas de la pintura europea más reciente ” ( Revista de ...
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... Carpentier's lo real maravilloso and today's literary magic realism as one and the same.19 Only now and then have critics condemned this conflation as one source of the conceptual confusion concerning magic realism , demanding that ...
... Carpentier's lo real maravilloso and today's literary magic realism as one and the same.19 Only now and then have critics condemned this conflation as one source of the conceptual confusion concerning magic realism , demanding that ...
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... Carpentier uses metaphors taken from the domain of magic , which can similarly be separated into conjuring or sleight of hand that is , artful deception and true sorcery . For Carpentier , the European marvellous is “ manufactured by ...
... Carpentier uses metaphors taken from the domain of magic , which can similarly be separated into conjuring or sleight of hand that is , artful deception and true sorcery . For Carpentier , the European marvellous is “ manufactured by ...
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... Carpentier became something of a father figure for younger Latin American writers , encouraging them to look to ... Carpentier's text also is a programmatic attempt to invert the cultural hierarchy between Europe and South America , or ...
... Carpentier became something of a father figure for younger Latin American writers , encouraging them to look to ... Carpentier's text also is a programmatic attempt to invert the cultural hierarchy between Europe and South America , or ...
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