Table of Content
Elsa LINGUANTI: Acknowledgements. Introduction.Tommaso SCARANO: Notes on Spanish-American Magical Realism.Carmen CONCILIO: The Magic of Language in the novels of Patrick White and David Malouf.Shaul BASSI: Salman Rushdie's Special Effects.Carmen DELL'AVERSANO: Worlds, Things, Words. Rushdie's style from Grimus to Midnight's Children. Alessandro MONTI: Representing the Words. Sanskrit poetics and the making of reality.Lucia BOLDRINI: The Ragged Edge of Miracles or: A word or two on those Jack Hodgins novels. Lucia BIAGIOTTI: Bees, Bodies, and Magical Miscegenation. Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said. Biancamaria RIZZARDI PERUTELLI: Myth, Magical, and the Real in Gwendolyn MacEwen's Noman. Alfredo RIZZARDI: Bewildered With Nature. The magical-realist in Joe Rosenblatt.Robert BRINGHURST: Coterminous Worlds.Isabella ZOPPI: The Magic Reality of Memory. Janet Frame's The Carpathians. Renato OLIVA: Re-Dreaming the World. Ben Okri's shamanic realism.Paolo BERTINETTI: Reality and Magic in Syl Cheney-Coker's. The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar.Pietro DEANDREA: History never walks here, it runs in any direction. Carnival and magic in the novels of Kojo Laing and Mia Couto.Valeria GUIDOTTI: Magical Realism Beyond the Wall of Apartheid? Missing Persons by Ivan Vladislavic.Elsa LINGUANTI: Wilson Harris. A case apart.Works Cited. Contributors.