A companion to magical realism / edited by Stephen M. Hart and Wen-chin Ouyang.

Introduction: Globalization of magical realism: new politics of aesthetics
Magical realism: style and substance / Stephen M. Hart
Magical realism and beyond: ideology of fantasy / Wen-Chin Ouyang
Familiar grounds, novel trajectories: the fantastic, the real and magical realism / Stephen Hart and Wen-Chin Ouyang
pt. 1. Genealogies, myths, archives
Introduction / Stephen M. Hart
Swords and silver rings: magical objects in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez / Lois Parkinson Zamora
The presence of myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and García Márquez / Donald L. Shaw
The earth as archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo / Julia King and Stephen M. Hart
Alejo Carpentier's re-invention of América Latina as real and marvellous / Jason Wilson
The golden age myth in Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses / Lorna Robinson
Lessons from the Golden age in Gabriel García Márquez's Living to tell the tale / Efraín Kristal


pt. 2. History, nightmare, fantasy
Introduction / Stephen M. Hart
History and the fantastic in José Saramago's fiction / David Henn
Magical-realist elements in José Eustasio Rivera's The vortex / Humberto Núñez-Faraco
Beyond magical realism in The red of his shadow by Mayra Montero / Alejandra Rengifo
Cops, robbers, and anarcho-terrorists: crime and magical realism's Jewish question / Michael Berkowitz
Flights of fancy: Angela Carter's transgressive narratives / Sarah Sceats
pt. 3. The politics of magic
Introduction / Wen-Chin Ouyang
Humour and magical realism in El reino de este mundo / Evelyn Fishburn
Magical realism and children's literature: Isabel Allende's La ciudad de las bestias / Philip Swanson
Unsavoury representations in Laura Esquivel's Like water for chocolate / Helene Price
Not so innocent
An Israeli tale of subversion: Dorit Rabinyan's Persian brides / Tsila (Abramovitz) Ratner
Magical realism as ideology: narrative evasions in the work of Nakagami Kenji / Mark Morris
Legend, fantasy, and the birth of the new in Los funerales de la mamá grade by Gabriel García Márquez / Robin Fiddian


pt. 4. Empire, nation, magic
Introduction / Wen-Chin Ouyang
Magical nationalism, lyric poetry, and the marvellous: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney / Jonathan Allison
Empire and magic in a Tuareg novel: Ibrāhīm al-Kawnī's al-Khusūf (The lunar eclipse) / Stefan Sperl
Magical realism and nomadic writing in the Maghreb / John D. Erickson
Of numerology and butterflies: magical realism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses / Stephanie Jones
From The thousand and one nights to magical realism: postnational predicament in The journey of little Ghandi by Elias Khoury / Wen-Chin Ouyang
Guide to further reading / Stephen M. Hart and Kenneth Reeds.