Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Rethreading the Magical Realist Debate
• 1. Rebellious Aesthetic Acts
• 2. Dash's and Kureishi's Rebellious Magicoreels
• 3. Oscar "Zeta" Acosta's De-formed Auto-bio-graphé
• 4. Ana Castillo's (En)Gendered Magicorealism
• 5. Salman Rushdie's Fourthspace Narrative Re-Conquistas
• Coda: Mapping the Postethnic Critical Method
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index

Promotional Information

Seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. Multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film

About the Author

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

Reviews

"In this exciting new book, Frederick Luis Aldama has done an outstanding job of remapping 'magical realism.'"---Werner Sollors, Henry B. And Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University