CRITICISM

Bakker, Martin. “Magic Realism and the Archetype in Hubert Lampo's Work.” Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies Revue 12, No. 2 (Fall 1991): 17-21.

Discusses archetypal mythology in the magic realism of Flemish writer Hubert Lampo.

Bartlett, Catherine. “Magical Realism: The Latin American Influence on Modern Chicano Writers.” Confluencia 1, No. 2 (Spring 1986): 27-37.

Argues that contemporary American Chicano writers take the bulk of their inspiration from Mexican and South-American writers of magic realist fiction rather than from Anglo-American writers.

Chamberlain, Lori. “Magicking the Real: Paradoxes of Postmodern Writing.” In Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery, pp. 5-21. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Discusses the place of magic realism in postmodern fiction.

Cohn, Deborah. “To See or Not to See: Invisibility, Clairvoyance, and Revisions of History in Invisible Man and Las Casa de los espíritus.

Argues that Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus use magic realism to explore the experiences of the marginalized in their respective societies.

D'Haen, Theo. “Irish Realism, Magic Realism and Postmodernism.” In British Postmodern Fiction, edited by Theo D'Haen and Hans Bertens, pp. 33-46. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993.

Examines magic realism in the works of postmodernist Irish regionalist writers.

———. “Timothy Findley: Magical Realism and the Canadian Postmodern.” In Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction, edited by Jeanne Delbaere, pp. 217-33. Sydney and New South Wales: Dangeroo Press, 1990.

Comments on magic realism in Canadian postmodern fiction.

Duncan, Cynthia. “The Theme of the Avenging Dead in ‘Perfecto Luna’: A Magical Realist Approach.” In A Different Reality: Studies on the Work of Elena Garro, edited by Anita K. Stoll, pp. 90-101. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1990.

Notes differences between magic realism and literature of the fantastic and analyzes Elena Garro's story “Perfecto Luna” as a work of magic realism.

Fink, Cecelia Coulas. “‘If Words Won't Do, and Symbols Fail’: Hodgins' Magic Reality.” Journal of Canadian Studies 20, No. 2 (Summer 1985): 118-31.

Discusses the tension between realism and magical elements in Jack Hodgins's novel The Invention of the World.

Frisch, Mark. “Nature, Postmodernity, and Real Marvelous: Faulkner, Quiroga, Mallea, Rulfo, Carpentier.” Faulkner Journal 12, No. 1-2 (Spring 1995): 67-82.

Discusses the influence of American writer William Faulkner on Latin-American magic-realist writers.

Ganguly, S. P. “Reality as Second Creation in the Latin-American Novels: Garcia Marquez and his Cosmovision.” In Garcia Marquez and Latin America, edited by Alok Bhalla, pp. 169-81. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1987.

Discusses the sociopolitical conditions in Latin American countries that inform contemporary magic-realist writing.

Gish, Robert F. “Word Medicine: Storytelling and Magic Realism in James Welch's Fools Crow.” American Indian Quarterly 14, No. 4 (Fall 1990).

Argues that the technique of magic realism creates metafictional meaning in James Welch's Fools Crow.

Gunn, Susan C. “Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War.” Explicator 55, No. 1 (Fall 1996): 57-59.

Provides a brief explication of magical events in John Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War.

Haber, Erika. “In Search of the Fantastic in Tertz's Fantastic Realism.” Slavic and East European Journal 42, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 254-67.

Contends that Abram Tertz subverts “the tenets of Socialist Realism” by using elements of magic realism in his works.

Harrington, Jonathan. “A Truly Immense Journey: Profile of Omar S. Castañeda.” Americas Review 23, No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1995): 204-16.

Interview in which Harrington and Castañeda discuss the Guatemalan writer's works, which include elements of magic realism.

Irvine, Dean J. “Fables of the Plague Years: Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, and Magic Realism in Cien años de soledad.” Ariel 29, No. 4 (November 1998): 53-80.

Examines the significance of colonialism and postmodernism in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Kalogeras, Yiorgos D. “When the Tree Sings: Magic Realism and the Carnivalesque in a Greek-American Narrative.” International Fiction Review 16, No. 1 (Winter 1989): 32-38.

Discusses the place of the popular culture carnival, as described by the theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, in magic-realist works by Greek-American writers.

Mikics, David. “Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer.” In Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community, edited by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris, pp. 371-404. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995.

Examines the influence of magic-realist writer Alejo Carpentier on the works of Derek Walcott.

Ormerod, Beverley. “Magical Realism in Contemporary French Caribbean Literature: Ideology or Literary Diversion?” Australian Journal of French Studies 34, No. 2 (May 1997): 216-26.

Questions whether or not magic realism can be considered an ideological literary movement in French-Caribbean writing.

Perrone, Charles A. “Guimarães Rosa through the Prism of Magic Realism.” In Tropical Paths: Essays on Modern Brazilian Literature, edited by Randal Johnson, pp. 101-22. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993.

Examines the place of Guimarães Rosa in contemporary Latin-American magic-realist fiction.

Preble-Niemi, Oralia. “Magical Realism and the Great Goddess in Two Novels by Alejo Carpentier and Alice Walker.” Comparatist XVI, No. 16 (May 1992): 101-14.

Contrasts the purposes and results of the use of magic realism in novels by Alejo Carpentier and Alice Walker.

Punter, David. “Essential Imaginings: The Novels of Angela Carter and Russell Hoban.” In The British and Irish Novel since 1960, edited by James Acheson, pp. 142-58. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Finds the elements of magic realism in the works of Angela Carter and Russell Hoban a welcome antidote to typical postmodernist relativity and deconstruction.

Rahimieh, Nasrin. “Magical Realism in Moniru Ravanipur's Ahl-e gharq.” Iranian Studies 23, No. 1-4 (1990): 61-75.

Argues that magic realism in the works of Moniru Ravanipur is fundamentally different from and independent of the magic realism of the more well-known Latin-American writers.

Spindler, William. “Magic Realism: A Typology.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 29, No. 1 (January 1993): 75-85.

Attempts to construct an identifiable model of magic-realism to distinguish it from other literary categories.

Todd, Richard. “Convention and Innovation in British Fiction 1981-1984: The Contemporaneity of Magic Realism.” In Convention and Innovation in Literature, edited by Theo D'Haen, Rainer Grübel, and Helmut Lethen, pp. 361-88. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1989.

Analyzes the pervasiveness of magic realism in British fiction of the early 1980s.

Walter, Roland. “Pan-American (Re)Visions: Magical Realism and Amerindian Cultures in Susan Power's The Grass Dancer, Gioconda Belli's La Mujer Habitada, Linda Hogan's Power, and Mario Vargas Llosa's El Hablador.” American Studies International 37, No. 3 (October 1999): 63-80.

Examines the works of several Pan-American writers in order to define magic realism as a “sociocultural practice.”

Williamson, Edwin. “Magical Realism and the Theme of Incest in One Hundred Years of Solitude.” In Gabriel García Márquez: New Readings, edited by Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell, pp. 45-63. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Argues in favor of a “dialectic of identity and difference” in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Wishnia, Kenneth. “Science Fiction and Magic Realism: Two Openings, Same Space.” Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction 59 (Fall 1993): 29-41.

Locates similarities between magic realism and science fiction.