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Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.
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Kim Anderson Sasser is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College where she has taught courses including Modern Global Literature, Magical Realism, and West African Literature. Her areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone fiction, magical realism, cosmopolitanism, and postcolonial literature and theory.
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Book Title: Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism
Book Subtitle: Strategizing Belonging
Authors: Kim Anderson Sasser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301901
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30189-5Published: 03 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45369-6Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30190-1Published: 02 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 260
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Fiction, British and Irish Literature