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Book 2015

Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America

2 readers

Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Language
English
Published
2015
  • Spanish American fiction
  • Magic realism (Literature)
  • History and criticism
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Emotions
  • Marvelous, The, in literature
  • History
  • Wonder

"Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in Latin America in light of the cultural history of the emotions and in conversation with contemporary theories of affect. It explores how twentieth-century magical realist narrative reimagines public and collective forms of feeling, in particular the colonial history of wonder in the wake of the voyages to the New World" --