Authors:Jesus Benito, Ana Mª Manzanas, Begona Simal,
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: literatures, caeal, ethnic, realism, mirrors, magical, uncertain
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-05-18
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 9042026006
ISBN-13: 9789042026001

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 Le?vinasian 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 m