Coterminous Worldses

Magical realism and contemporarypost-colonial literature in English

Edited by

Elsa LinguantiFrancesco Casotti & Carmen Concilio

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements / viiIntroductionSO ELSA LlNGUANTI / 1

Notes on Spanish-American Magical Realism Vso TOMMASO SCARANO / 9

The Magic of Languagein the novels of Patrick White and David Maloufso C A R M E N C O N C I L I O / 29

Sajman Rushdie's Special Effects Xso S H A U L BASSI / 47

Worlds, Things, Words XRushdie's style from Grimus to Midnight's Childrenso C A R M E N D E L L ' A V E R S A N O / 61

Representing the WorldsSanskrit poetics and the making of realityso ALESSANDRO M O N T I / 71

The Ragged Edge of Miraclesor: A word or two on those Jack Hodgins novelsso L U C I A BOLDRINI / 83

Bees, Bodies, and Magical MiscegenationRobert Kroetsch's What the Crow Saidso LUCA BlAGIOTTI / 103

Myth, Magic, and the Realin Gwendolyn MacEwen's Nomanso BlANCAMARIA RlZZARDI PERUTELLI / 115

Bewildered With NatureThe magical-realist in Joe Rosenblattso ALFREDO RIZZARDI / 125

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i Coterminous Worldsso ROBERT BRINGHURST / 139

The Magic Reality of MemoryJanet Frame's The Carpathians

so ISABELLA ZOPPI / 151

< Re-Dreaming the WorldBen Okri's shamanic realismso RENATO OLIVA / 171

Reality and Magic in Syl Cheney-Coker'sThe Last Harmattan ofAlusine Dunbar

so PAOLO BERTINETTI / 197

"History never walks here, it runs in any direction"Carnival and magic in the novels of Kojo Laing and Mia CoutoSO PlETRO DEANDREA / 209

Magical Realism Beyond the Wall of Apartheid?Missing Persons by Ivan Vladislavicso VALERIA GUIDOTTI / 227

Wilson HarrisA case apartso ELSA LINGUANTI / 245

Works Cited / 269Contributors / 281

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