This new Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of
the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garc穩a M獺rquez (in particular his recently published
memoirs), Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney,
Jos矇 Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Mar穩a Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jos矇 Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of
magical realism. BR>Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an
international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies,
University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the
School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
