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Magical Realism
Writer and Instructor Alberto Ríos offers this colorful jumping off point for students (includes
music)
Magical Realism: A
Movie
This animation was scripted during a single conversation about magical realism. Funny, with
sound effects
Magical Realism v. Realist
Magicism
From Black Mary Cash's web journal, a followup on the magical realist panel held at Minicon
38, 2003
From Strange
Words: Literature and Fantasy
An interview with Waly Crowley, Point No Point magazine
Magical
Realism
Lindsay Moore offers this concise overview of the style (published in 1998)
Conventions of the Novel and
Magical Realism
An adaptation of M.H. Abrams' A Glossary of Literary Terms, 6th edition as cited by
Dr. Robert P. Fletcher of West Chester University
Margin's magical realist reading list for students
at Amazon's Listmania!
Magic Realism: A
Problem
Interesting considerations about the problems inherent in classifying a literary work as
magical realism, contributed by David Mullan as part of the Imperial Archive Project through
Queens University Belfast
What is magic, and why does it
work?
Visit Vinay Gupta's page and find out
Deliberate Alienation:
Surrealism and Magical Realism
Michael Coffey does some critical thinking about both literary forms
I am not a magical realist!
Alberto Fuguet's frustrations with ethnic typification in
literature
Robert Peake's "Deconstructing Religion Through Magical Realism"
Comparisons between Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues and Ana Castillo's So
Far From God
Kevin
Baldeosingh and "Magical Unrealism"
A discussion about the flexibility of space and time in magical realism
Reconsidering the
Latin American Boom
Review from the Americas Society: Quincas Borba by Joaquim Maria Machado de
Assis/translated by Dr. Gregory Rabassa
Psionics and
Esotericism
A discussion of imaginative fiction and the supernormal, with interesting distinctions made
about magical realism and mysticism, from Orion's Arm
South American
writers
This discussion in ONElist is worth more than a peek -- you might even consider
joining
Magical Realism: Theory,
History, Community
In my humble opinion (TKS), this book is the foremost authority on the subject, edited by
Wendy B. Faris and Lois Parkinson Zamora for Duke University Press. Check out the site
first, then buy the book
The Magical Realism
Page
Evelyn Leeper's thorough examination, spawned from extensive online chat about the
subject
After
Magical Realism
Professor Marcus Embry examines the development and changing direction of the magical
realism genre in his course for the University of Northern Colorado
Gabo Talks || García
Márquez lives to tell a tall tale
Jorge Morales discusses Gabriel García Márquez's biography, from the Village
Voice
Living to Tell The Tale
García Márquez's memoir shows how family made him a writer
Meeting Gabriel
García Márquez
NPR Commentary
Gabriel García
Márquez
Margaret Lee's dedicated site (one of but many millions on the web)
TheModernWord.com,
aka The Libyrinth ~ Gabriel García Márquez
A great jumping off point for García Márquez fans, with links galore
A U T H O R
S A N D W O R K S
Minions of the Moon by Richard Bowes
On Alejo Carpentier: "I will never know so much about Carpentier again"
The Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman
Canadian novelist Anosh Irani
Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky
Psychoraag by Suhayl Saadi
A Time of Angels by Patricia Schonstein
KATHLEEN ALCALÁ: home page
The Visualizing Capacity of Magical
Realism: Objects and Expression in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges
Baltasar Porcel,
Springs and Autumns.
Terri Windling, editor of The
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Revolutionary Magic
Magic and
Realism
Niall Williams --
Four Letters of Love
Shani Mootoo
Circle Game
David Almond
Amarillo Bay
Melal: A Novel of the Pacific by Robert Barclay
Magical realism from the Pacific Islands
Urban gay magical realism
Leonardo Padura's essay on the great Cuban novelist
"Traversing time and terrain for a grand story of the Americas"
Author of The Cripple and His Talismans
A review from Frontlist.com
Midnight's Children meets Trainspotting? Scottish magical realism
U.S. debut of South African novelist
The Chicana magical realist addresses the universality of La Llorona in contemporary
American culture
Lois Parkinson Zamora's contribution to Janus Head (PDF file)
"In scope and narrative intensity, Springs and Autumns rivals the best magical
realism of Latin American fiction, though with a particular Mallorcan and Porcelian flair"
Discussing, among other things, urban fantasy and magical realism in this interview with
Michael Jones from Green Man Review
Jennifer White's observations of magical realism in Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
The Worlds of Louis de Bernieres
An interview (Irish magical realism)
As usual, Emory University is reliable for providing interesting and thorough links to magical
realists. This one is penned by Candice Dias
S. Rushdie ~ "Magical
realism as post-colonialist device in Midnight's Children"
Nicholas Stewart's contribution to the Queen's University of Belfast's evolving
discussion
Bless Me, Ultima ~ Rudolfo Anaya
An overview of the novel by Felice Aull, Ph.D. for New York University
The Way of Don B.
Here's Lisa Zeidner's classification of the late Donald Barthelme's works
"The Garden of The Forking
Paths"
Borges, Borges and more Borges. Did I say there was information about Borges here?
Another great site from TheModernWord.com
Angela
Carter
Fantastic Fiction's thorough list of works by the well-known British magical
realist
Texaco ~ Patrick Chamoiseau
An overview of the novel by Felice Aull, Ph.D. for New York University
Julio Cortázar
A good starting place for fans of the Argentinian author, by Subir Grewal
Günter Grass
From Pegasos, literature related resources in Finland, a tribute to the author of The Tin
Drum and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
Salman Rushdie
Another thorough site by Subir Grewal
Amos Tutuola
(1920-1997)
The history of the author of the controversial novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, from the
George A. Smathers libraries (The University of Florida)
Magical Realist films: a List
compiled and maintained by Bruce Taylor of the Magic Realist Writers International Network
Peter Keough's discussion about the problems of bringing magical realism to the silver
screen
Biobibliography of Lygia Bojunga
Brazilian Author of children's literature
Leading master of children's magical realism
Online discussion
Offered by Speculations, this is a conversation addressing Third Wave Magical Realism
This webzine publishes quality writing from various fantastical genres, including magical
realism
Twilight Times
Editor Lida E. Quillen actively seeks and will publish well-written magical realism for her
e-zine. She's a book publisher, to boot
From the Council for the Literature of
the Fantastic
Daniel Pearlman's essay
discusses magical realism in the American publishing marketplace
Some Ghostly Tales From South
America
Jessica Amanda Salmonson thinks an awful lot about magical realist short stories and their
various authors in this dynamic work sponsored by Violet Books
The Cafe Irreal
A graphically cool site offering essays and stories which expand on notions of realism, plus
other interesting features
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