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Uncertain Mirrors
Jesús Benito
Ana María Manzanas
Begoña Simal
其他書名
Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures
出版
BRILL
, 2009-01-01
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
History / Europe / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Social Science / Human Geography
Social Science / Popular Culture
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Regional Studies
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
9042026014
9789042026018
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6Ph5DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Uncertain Mirrors
realigns magical realism within a changing critical landscape, from Aristotelian mimesis to Adorno’s concept of negative dialectics. In between, the volume traverses a vast theoretical arena, from postmodernism and postcolonialism to Lévinasian philosophy and eco-criticism. The volume opens and closes with dialectical instability, as it recasts the mutability of the term “mimesis” as both a “world-reflecting” and a “world-creating” mechanism. Magical realism, the authors contend, offers another stance of the possible; it also situates the reader at a hybrid aesthetic matrix inextricably linked to postcolonial theory, postmodernism, Bakhtinian theory, and quantum physics. As
Uncertain Mirrors
explores, magical realist texts partake of modernist exhaustion as much as of postmodernist replenishment, yet they stem from a different “location of culture” and “direction of culture;” they offer complex aesthetic artifacts that, in their recreation of alternative geographic and semiotic spaces, dislocate hegemonic texts and ideologies. Their unrealistic excess effects a breach in the totalized unity represented by 19th century realism, and plays the dissonant chord of the particular and the non-identical