Challenging realities: magic realism in contemporary American women’s fiction

Noriega Sanchez, Maria Ruth (2002). Challenging realities: magic realism in contemporary American women’s fiction. Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans. València, Spain: Universitat de València.

Abstract

This book aims to illustrate the importance of magic realism in American women's fiction in the late twentieth century. It draws relevant comparative analyses that show various formal and thematic interactions between separate literary traditions. It discusses work by African American writers Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, Native American authors Louise Erdrich and Leslie Marmon Silko, the Chicana writer Ana Castillo and the Mexican Laura Esquivel.

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• Item ORO ID
• 8783
• Item Type
• Book
• ISBN
• 84-370-5422-2, 978-84-370-5422-3
• Extra Information
• There are copies of this book at the University of Sheffield Library and at Royal Holloway University of London Library.
• Keywords
• Magic realism; 20th-Century American literature; women authors; African American writing; Native American writing; Chicano writing; Mexican writing.
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
• Depositing User
• Maria Noriega-Sanchez