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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"marvellous realism"”.
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Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire
… rather hastily, considered as typical of magical realism or marvellous realism. This dissertation aims at showing that the fantastic, as defined by Tzvetan Todorov (1970), is better suited to describe this aspect of Chamoiseau’s novels, especially Biblique des derniers gestes (2002). Our main …
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Liberation Textualities: Decoloniality, Feminism, and Aesthetics in Anglophone Caribbean and Indigenous North American Resistance Literature
… through the lens of spiritual resistance and marvellous realism. Not Vanishing (1988) and A Leaf in His Hear (2010) are analyzed for their representations of the body as a site of resistance. Lastly, Coups and Calypsos (2001) and Annie Maes Movement (1998) are examined for their focus on …
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… reflects on the configuration of conjoinment in marvellous realist novels such as Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine and Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone. The chapter argues that the marvellous realist novels under consideration mobilise conjoinment to reflect on the multiplicity of modern …