Magic Realism, Surrealism, and Fantasy:

A Selected Bibliography


Adams, M. Ian. Three Authors of Alienation: Bomba, Onetti, Carpentier. Austin: U of Texas P, 1975.

Alazraki, Jaime. "Neofantastic Literature--A Structuralist Answer." In The Analysis of Literary Texts: Current Trends in        Methodology. Ed. Randolph Pope. Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan U, Bilingual Press, 1980. Pp.286-290.

--------."The Fantastic as Surrealist Metaphor in Cortázar's Short Fiction." Dada/Surrealism 5(1975): 28-33.

Alazraki, Jaime, and Ivor Ivask, eds. The Final Island: The Fiction of Julio Cortázar. Norman: U of Nebraska P, 1976.

Alexis, Jacques Stephen, "Of the Marvellous Reality of the Haitians, Présence Africaine [English Edition] 8-10 (June-Nov 1956), 249-275.

Anderson-Imbert, "'Magic Realism' in Spanish American Fiction," The International Fiction Review, 1, 1 (January 1975), 1-7.

Angulo, María-Elena. Magic Realism: Social Context and Discourse. New York and London: Garland, 1995.

Balla, Alok. García Márquez and Latin America. New York: Envoy Press, 1987.

Barreda, Pedro. The Black Protagonist in the Cuban Novel. Trans. Page Bancroft. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1979.

Barth, John. "The Literature of Exhaustion," in The Friday Book: Essays and Other Non-fictions. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984.

--------."The Literature of Replenishment," in The Friday Book. (New York, 1984).

Bell-Villada, Gene H. Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1981.

--------.García Márquez: The Man and His Work. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1990.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Gabriel García Márquez. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.

Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially the Fantastic. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1981.

Brotherson , Gordon. The Emergence of the Latin American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1977.

Callan, Richard J. Miguel Angel Asturias. New York: Twayne, 1970.

Carpentier, Alejo. "Prologue to The Kingdom of This World," Trans. Alfred Mac Adam, Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 47, (1993 Fall): p. 28-31

Chanady, Amaryll B. Magic Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antimony. New York: Garland, 1985.

Chenieux-Gendron, Jacqueline. Surrealism. Trans. Vivien Folkenflik. New York: Columbia U P, 1990.

Cooper, Brenda. Magic Realism in West African Fiction. London: Routledge, 1998

Del George, Dana. The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas: The Other World in the New World. Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, 2001

D'haen, Theo, and Hans Bertens, eds. Postmodern Fiction in Canada. Antwerpen: Restant, 1992.

Diaz, Nancy Gray. The Radical Self: Metamorphosis to Animal Form in Latin American Narrative. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1988.

Donoso, José. The Boom in Spanish American Literature: A Personal History. New York: Columbia U P, 1977.

Durix, Jean-Pierre. Mimesis, Genre, and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism. Hampshire: St. Martins Press, 1998.

Earle, Peter G., and German Gullon, eds. Surrealismo/Surrealismos Latinoamérica y Espana. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1975.

Flores, Angel, "Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction," Hispania, XXXVIII, No. 2 (May, 1955), 187-192.

Franco, Jean. An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1969.

Gallagher, D.P. Modern Latin American Literature. London: Oxford U P, 1973.

Gonzalez Echévarria, Roberto. Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home. Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1977.

 González Rodríguez, María Luz, " Magic Realism: Its Origins, Nature and Subsequent Influence on Canadian
 Literature, "  In: Oliva, Juan Ignacio,  Elena Sánchez, Luz  González,  and Isaías Naranjo, eds. Canadística canaria (1991-2000):  Ensayos literarios anglocanadienses. La Laguna, Spain: Universidad de La Laguna, 2002,  87-102

Hancock, Geoff, "Magic or Realism: The Marvellous in Canadian Fiction," Canadian Forum, (March 1986), 23-35. (In Hinchcliffe & Jewinsky)

--------. ed. Magic Realism. Toronto: Aya Press, 1980

--------."Magic Realism, or, The Future of Canadian Fiction," Canadian Fiction Magazine, 24-25 (Spring Summer 1977), 4-6.

Harss, Luis, and Barbara Dohmann, eds. Into the Mainstream: Conversations with Latin American Writers. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Hart, Patricia. Narrative Magic in the Fiction of Isabelle Allende. London and Toronto: Associated U Presses, 1989.

Hinchcliffe, Peter, and Ed Jewinski, eds. Magic Realism and Canadian Literature: Essays and Stories. Waterloo: U of Waterloo P, 1985.

Howe, Barbara, ed. Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America. New York: Avon Books, 1973.

Irwin, William R. The Game of the Impossible: A Rhetoric of Fantasy. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1976.

Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London: Methuen, 1981.

Janes, Regina. Gabriel García Márquez: Revolutions in Wonderland. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1981.

Kadir, Djelal. Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1986.

Keen, Benjamin, ed. Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 to the Present. Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press, 1991.

King, John, ed. Latin American Fiction: A Survey. London: Faber and Faber, 1978.

King, John, ed. Modern Latin American Fiction. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.

King, Lloyd. Alejo Carpentier: A Latin Carribean Writer. St. Augustine, Trinidad: Multi-Media Production Centre, School of Education, nd.

Kulin, Katalin. Modern Latin American Fiction: A Return to Didacticism. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1988.

Leal, Luis, "Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature," in Zamora, 119-124.

Lindstrom, Naomi. Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction. Austin: U of Texas P, 1994.

Linguanti, Elsa, Franceso Casotti and Carmen Concilio, eds. Coterminus Worlds: Magical Realism and Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature in English. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999.

Luis, William. Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative. Austin: U of Texas P, 1990.

MacAdam, A.J. Modern Latin American Narrative: The Dreams of Reason.Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1977.

Martin, G. Journeys Through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century. New York: Verso, 1989.

McMurray, George, "Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction," Colorado State Review 8, 2 (1981), 3-20.

McQuirk, Bernard, and Richard Caldwell, eds. Gabriel García Márquez: New Readings. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1987.

Mendoza, Plinio Apuleyo, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Fragrance of Guava. Trans. Ann Wright. London: Verso, 1982.

Menton, Seymor. "Jorge Luis Borges, Magic Realist," Hispanic Review, 50(1982) 411-426.

--------. "The Last of the Just: Between Borges and García Márquez." World Literature Today 59, 4(Autumn 1985): 517-24.

--------.Magic Realism Rediscovered, 1918-1981. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1983.

Merrell, Floyd, "The Ideal World in Search of its Reference: An Inquiry into the Underlying Nature of Magic Realism," Chasqui Vol IV, No. 2 (Feb 1975), 5-17.

Ondaatje, Michael, "García Márquez and the Bus to Aracataca," in Figures in a Ground. eds. Diane Bessai and D. Jackel. Saskatoon: Western Producer Books, 1978.

Ortega, Julio. Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative. Trans. Galen D. Greaser. Austin: U of Texas P, 1984.

Rabkin, Eric. The Fantastic in Literature. Princeton: P.U.P., 1976.

Retamar, Roberto Fernandez. Caliban and Other Essays. Trans. Edward Baker. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.

Richardson, Michael, ed. The Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Carribean. Trans. K. Fijakowski and M. Richardson. London and New York: Verso,1996.

Rodo, José Enrique. Areil. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. Austin: U of Texas P, 1988.

Rodríguez Monegal, Emir. "Surrealism, Magical Realism, Magical Fiction: A Study in Confusion." In Surrealismo/surrealismos: Latinoamérica y España. Ed. Peter G. Earle and Germán Gullón. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 1977. Pp. 25-32.

Rodríguez Monegal, Emir, and Alister Reid, eds. Borges: A Reader. New York: Dutton, 1981.

Rodriguez-Luis, Julio. The Contemporary Praxis of the Fantastic: Borges and Cortázar. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1991.

Sandrow, Nahma. Surrealism: Theatre, Arts, Ideas. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Sarduy, Severo, "The Baroque and the Neobaroque," in Fernandez, Moreno Cesar; Julio Ortega, Ivan A. Schuklman, Mary G. Berg, eds. Latin America in its Literature. New York: Holms and Meier, 1980, pp115-132.

Shaw, Donald L. Alejo Carpentier. Boston: Twayne, 1985.

Simpkins, Scott, "Magical Strategies: The Supplement of Realism," Twentieth Century Literature, 1988(Summer), 34:2, 140-154.

Slusser, George E., Eric S. Rabkin and Robert Scholes, eds. Bridges to Fantasy. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois U P, 1982.

Spindler, William. "Magic Realism: A Typology," Forum for Modern Language Studies, 29 No. 1 (Jan 1993),75-85.

Swanson, Philip, ed. Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. Trans. Richard Howard. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1973.

Tusa, Bobs M. Alejo Carpentier: A Comprehensive Study. Valencia and Chapel Hill: Albatross Hispanofolia Ediciones, 1982.

Ude, Wayne, "Forging an American Style: The Romance-Novel and Magical Realism as Response to the Frontier and Wilderness Experience," in  Mogen, David,  Mark Busby, and Paul Bryant, eds.  The Frontier Experience and the American Dream : Essays on American Literature.  College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1989.

Young, David, and Keith Hagarman, eds. Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology. New York: Longman, 1984.

Young, Richard A. Carpentier: El Reino De Este Mundo. London: Grant and Cutler, 1983.

Wilson, Robert Rawdon, "On the Boundary of the Magic and the Real:Notes on Inter-American Fiction," Compass 6(Spring 1979), 37-53.

Zamora, Lois Parkinson, and Wendy B. Faris, eds. Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Durham and London: Duke U P, 1995.

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