N O N F I C T I O N F E A T U R E
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The Art and Craft of Magical Realism
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INTRODUCTION
f r o m t h
e e d i t o r
c o l u
m n s
Summer 2005
MAGICAL REALISM 101: ASK THE PROFESSOR
Featured Educator: Katherine Vaz
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
June 2006
LATINO FORUM:
Magical Realism's Latina Voices
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
February 2006
MAGICAL REALIST
FILM
"Isn't It Romantic?"
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ s. l.
d e e f h o l t
s ~ m a r g i
n
|||| section includes
archives ||||
June 2006
RETROSPECTIVE QUARTET
MASSIMO BONTEMPELLI:
Roots of Magical Realism…in Italy?
HARUKI MURAKAMI:
It's All About the Journey
SALMAN RUSHDIE:
Midnight's Children, All Grown Up
ARTURO USLAR-PIETRI:
Time to Give Credit Where Credit's Due?
t a m a r a k a y e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i n
June 2006
DEUS EX
MACHINA
Translators:
Magical Realism's necessary decryption experts
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
see also:
Heroines in blue stockings: Magical realism's debt to America's female scholars
(March 2006)
The Schizophrenic Reviews of Melancholy Whores
(Autumn 2005)
Don Quixote: A Global Celebration
(Summer 2005)
Reading Lists: A Matter of Opinions
(Autumn 2004)
Publisher Spotlight ~ Peepal Tree Press
(Summer 2004)
Between Rocks and Hard Places ~ Magical
realism's uncomfortable straddling of literary and genre (Winter
2004)
Summer 2005
PRACTICAL
MAGIC
The Meaning of Madness in Magical Realism
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
see also:
Magical Realism's Incredibles (Winter 2005)
Voices of the Dead (Autumn 2004)
Understanding the Other (Summer 2004)
Want to write magical realism? Check your
motives first (Winter 2004)
March 2006
TRAVELS WITH
BRUCE
Taking the show on the road
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n & b r u c e t a y l o r ~ m a r g i
n
Autumn 2005
FOR WRITERS
ONLY
Market Spotlight
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
see also:
Market Spotlight: Special Iberian Peninsula Edition (Summer
2005)
Market Spotlight (Winter
2005)
Market Spotlight (Autumn
2004)
Special Caribbean Market Spotlight (Summer
2004)
Market Spotlight (Winter
2004)
i n t e r v i e w s
June 2006
WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE
m i c h e l l e c a s w e l l ~ A s i a S o u r c e
Autumn 2005
LETTING THE OLD AZTEC GODS HAVE THEIR WAY
t a m a r a s e l l m a n ~ m a r g i n
Summer 2005
ON TRANSLATING THE PRINCE OF WITS:
an interview with Edith Grossman [for Guernica]
j o e l w h i t n e y ~ g u e r n i c a
Autumn
2004 -- 10 pages
GLIMPSING ALL THAT LIES BENEATH:
Hermine Meinhard, organic practitioner of duende
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
Summer
2004 -- 16 pages
SAILING HOME
M. Eliza Hamilton Abégúndé navigates cultural memory in THE
ARIAN'S LAST LIFE
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
Autumn 2003 -- 15
pages
THE MAGIC IS
SIMPLY A DOOR
A conversation with Paulo da Costa
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
Nov/Dec 2001 -- 4 pages
THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN FANTASY AND IMAGINATION:
An interview with Isabel Allende |||| LA
CONVERSACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL ||||
c a r o l z a p a t a - w h e l a
n ~ c l o v i s
, c a l i f o r n i
a
a r t i c
l e s
June 2006
MAYAI-WAZIRI WA MARADHI:
Magic Realism in Euphrase Kezilahabi's long time unpublished story
e l e n a b e r t o n c i n i - z ú b k o v á ~ n a p l e s, i t a l y
June 2006
RECONSIDERING THE ORIGINS OF TIBETAN MAGICAL REALISM:
Lo real maravilloso and Magical Realism in Tashi Dawa
p a t r i c i a s c h i a f f i n i ~ p o m o n a, c a l i f o r n i a
March 2006
AMERICAN TOP FORTY:
Magical Realism's Leading Ladies (an incomplete list)
t a m a r a k a y e s e l l m a n f o r m a r g i n
March 2006
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD:
Magical Realism as Natural Pathway to Womanhood
d e v o n a m a l l o r y ~ n o r m a l , i l l i n o i s
March 2006
TONI MORRISON'S SONG OF SOLOMON:
Depictions of Conscious Experience
as Magical Realist Technique
d a v i d p e n d o r y ~ t a i p e i , t a i w a n
December 2005 special edition, SEASON OF SPIRIT
JEWISH MAGICAL REALISM: WRITING TO TELL THE TALE
t a m a r a k a y e s e l l m a n f o r m a r g i n
December 2005 special edition, SEASON OF SPIRIT
FRACTURING THE ZIONIST NARRATIVE
d r. a l a n m i n t z f o r j u d a i s m
Autumn 2005
PAOLA CORSO: MAGICAL REALISM AS MEMORY, VOICE AND VISION
t a m a r a k a y e s e l l m a n f o r m a r g i n
Summer 2005
THE HIDALGO AT HIS FIRESIDE: A tour of Alcalá de Henares, home of Cervantes
a d e l a i d a l u c e n a d e l o w e r ~ s o u t h k o r e a
Summer 2005
LORCA: The Duende
Theory and Divertissement
f e d e r i c o g a r c i a l o r c a ~ a p u b l i c d o m a i n t r e a s u r e
Winter 2005
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AVON BARD?
b r u c e t a y l o r ~ m a r g i n
Winter 2005
FABULOUSLY REAL
w i l l i a m p i e r c e ~ a g n i
Summer 2004 -- 3
pages
NALO HOPKINSON:
"ALL FICTION IS FANTASY"
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a n
~ m a r g i n
Summer 2004 -- 4 pages
LITERARY
PARADISE
r a n d y j o n e
s ~ m o n t p e l i e
r
Summer 2004 -- 5 pages
A STUDY IN
SALT
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a n
~ m a r g i n
Winter 2004 -- 3
pages
LAST RITES FOR
MAGICAL REALISM
r o b e r t m c c r u
m ~ t h
e o b s e r v e r , u
k
Autumn 2003 -- 6 pages
LIKE TRYING TO
LASSO A CLOUD:
One Attempt to Typify the Magical Realist Story
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
June 2002 -- 29 pages in 4 sections
ROB JOHNSON AND
THE HAUNTED VALLEY OF FANTASMAS
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
May 2002 -- a multilayered
presentation
HAZARDING
CHANCE: An Interpretive Reading of Angela Carter's WISE
CHILDREN
s. l. d e e f h o l t
s ~ m a r g i
n
Jan 2001 -- 7 pages -- originally appearing in Kansas
Quarterly, 1984
AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE REALITIES OF FICTION:
Teaching Magic Realism in Three Stories by Borges,
Fuentes and García Márquez
j o e b e n e v e n t
o ~ k i r k s v i l l e
, m i s s o u r
i
s p o t l
i g h t
June 2006
SPOTLIGHT: 12 Magical Realists You Never Heard Of
February 2006
SPOTLIGHT: SONGS OF CONNECTIVITY: Native America's Magical Realist Women
February 2006
SPOTLIGHT: Magical Realism's Greatest Love Stories (well, fifteen of them…)
Summer 2005
SPOTLIGHT: QUIXOTE'S COMPANIONS (books to supplement the Cervantes library)
Winter 2005
FIVE FABULIST YEARS: Margin pays tribute to its contributors
Autumn
2004
MRTV:
THE TWILIGHT ZONE and her offspring
Summer
2004
Maryse Condé's I,
TITUBA: BLACK WITCH OF SALEM
Margin Sidebar:
SUBJECT ~2~
INTERPRETATION
Question: What is supernatural literature?
Conundrum: But is it magical realism?
Winter
2004
Julian Barnes'
FLAUBERT'S PARROT
August
2003
Tim O'Brien's GOING
AFTER CACCIATO
c o m
m e n t a r y
June 2006
CRITICISM: Mormon magic realism?
w i l l i a m m o r r i s ~ a m o t l e y v i s i o n
June 2006
MAGICAL REALISM AND FILM: Degrading the image
g a r r e t t r o w l a n ~ l o s a n g e l e s, c a l i f o r n i a
May 2006
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK: This is the house that Pauline built
p a u l i n e h o l d s t o c k ~ c a n a d a
Autumn 2005
POETRY IS A WAY OF REACHING OUT TO WHAT IS REACHING FOR YOU
m i c h e l l e c l i f f f o r c e n t r u m
Autumn 2005
THE GIRL IN THE TREE: ON RE-READING GREEN MANSIONS
k a t h l e e n a l c a l á f o r m a r g i n
Autumn 2004
POINT/COUNTERPOINT:
~ Adrianne Harun and Gina Ochsner on "Consensual Reality"
Summer
2005
SARAMAGO'S OTHERS
g a r r e t t r o w l a
n ~ l o
s a n g e l e s, c a l i f o r n i
a
August
2004 -- 4 pages
SUBJECT ~2~
INTERPRETATION
WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF LITERARY MAGICAL REALISM?
t a m a r a k a y e s e l l m a n ~ m a r g i n
Autumn 2004
POINT/COUNTERPOINT:
~ A NECESSARY CONFUSION: MAGICAL REALISM ~
by Bainard Cowan for Janus Head
~ MAGICAL REALISM AND ITS MEANINGS: A NOT SO NECESSARY CONFUSION ~
by G. S. Evans for Cafe Irreal
Summer
2004 -- 7 pages
CARIBBEAN
MAGICAL REALISM: A DISTILLED MAGIC?
g a r r e t t r o w l a
n ~ l o
s a n g e l e s, c a l i f o r n i
a
Winter
2004 -- 4 pages
CHRISTOPHER
PRIEST'S FAVOURITE SLIPSTREAM BOOKS
c h r i s t o p h e r p r i e s
t ~ t h
e g u a r d i a n, u
k
Margin Sidebar:
SUBJECT ~2~
INTERPRETATION
Question: What is Slipstream?
Conundrum: But is it magical realism?
June 2002 -- 4 pages -- originally appearing in
Prescience and the SFWA Bulletin
A BRIEF HISTORY OF
MAGIC REALISM
b r u c e t a y l o
r a. k. a. m
r. m a g i c r e a l i s m
s e a t t l e , w a s h i n g t o
n
May 2002 -- 7 pages --
originally appearing in Quilldrivers, 2002
ONE
HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
In recognition of the 35th anniversary
j e f f k . h
i l l ~ o g l e s b y
, i l l i n o i s
Feb 2002
-- 29
pages with footnotes -- originally appearing in Literary
Imagination, Winter 2001
MAGICAL REALISM
AT WORLD'S END
m i c h a e l v a l d e
z m o s e
s ~ d u r h a m
, n o r t h c a r o l i n
a
Sept 2001 -- 4 pages
CORTÁZAR'S
REALITY: Another Kind of Magic
g a r r e t t r o w l a
n ~ l o
s a n g e l e s , c a l i f o r n i
a
Jan 2001 -- 5 pages
WHAT DO AMERICAN
READERS KNOW ABOUT
MAGICAL REALISM? A Book Group Infiltration
t a m a r a k a y
e s e l l m a
n ~ m a r g i
n
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