TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liliana Sikorska
AU  - Agnieszka Rzepa
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653021028
TI  - «Eyes deep with unfathomable histories»
T2  - The Poetics and Politics of Magic Realism Today and in the Past
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02102-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1044490
N2  - Eyes deep with unfathomable histories is a quotation taken from the poem by Pauline Melville entitled «Homeland». This volume was inspired by two areas: the first one was the writings of Pauline Melville, a British novelist, a poet and actress with Wapisiana (South American Indian) ancestry, and the second by Canadian magic realism. The majority of the articles in the collection focus on a variety of aspects of magic realism in contemporary Canadian literature in English, which abounds in texts representative of the mode; but some also approach magic realist texts by British novelists and US playwrights. The authors of the articles come from Europe and North America, and include established scholars, such as Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, who has been writing about developments within magic realism in Canada and beyond for almost thirty years, and Hartmut Lutz, an authority on Canadian Native literatures; as well as promising young scholars. They approach classics of magic realism, such as novels by Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch and Angela Carter, but also more recent texts by Joan Clark, Bernard Assiniwi, Rachel A. Quitsualik, Thomas King, Rawi Hage, Margaret Sweatman, Lilian Nattel, Susanne Swann and Eden Robinson among others.
KW  - Canadian literature, Native Canadian authors, Lebanese Civil War, 20th century drama of the United States, Guyanese Indians, Melville, Pauline,, Icelandic Sagas, Jewish diaspora in Canada
LA  - English
ER  -