Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

By: Ursula Kluwick

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Hardcover | 21 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, this book considers the significance of the role of magic realism in Rushdie'¬"s fiction, and the fact that it lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial. Kluwick proposes a definition of magic realism alternative to that based predominantly on Latin American literature, allowing for a more accurate description of divergent combinations of realist and supernatural elements. She argues that it is disharmony rather than harmony that is decisive, and that the incompatibility of the realist and the supernatural characteristic of magic realism needs to be recognized as a central element and driving force of Rushdie'¬"s, as well as other magic realists'¬", fiction. By analyzing in detail the type of magic realism exemplified by Rushdie'¬"s fiction, this study breaks new ground as the first to consider the entire corpus of Rushdie'¬"s magic realist fiction (Midnight'¬"s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor'¬"s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence), highlighting the disharmony and ambivalence created through the conjunction of realism and the supernatural.

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