Magic Realism: A Selected Bibliography

Aldama, Frederick Luis. Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta, Ana Castillo,
     Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie.
     Austin: U of Texas P, 2003.
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.
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.
Brotherson , Gordon. The Emergence of the Latin American Novel.
     Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1977.
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.
Conniff, Brian. "The Dark Side of Magical Realism: Science, Oppression, and Apocalypse in One Hundred Years of
      Solitude," Modern Fiction Studies 36, 2 (1990), 167-79.
Cooper, Brenda. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye.
     London, New York: 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.
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.
--------. "Magic Realism in Midnight's Children," Commonwealth 8, 1(1985), 57-63.
Earle, Peter G., and German Gullon, eds. Surrealismo/Surrealismos Latinoamérica y Espana.
     Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1975.
Faris, Wendy. Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative.
     Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2004.
Flores, Angel, "Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction," Hispania, XXXXVIII, 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.
--------."With Borges in Macondo," Diacritics, 2.1 (Spring 1972), 57-60.
--------."Cien años de soledad: The Novel as Myth and Archive," in Bloom.
Gullon, Ricardo, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Lost Art of Storytelling," Diacritics, 1.1 (Autumn 1971), 27-32.
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.
Hart, Stephen, "Magical Realism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cien Años De Soledad," INTI: Revista De Literatura
      Hispanica, 16-17 (Otono 1982-Primavera 1983), 37-51.
Hegerfeldt, Anne C. Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen Through Contemporary Fiction from Britain.
     Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
Hinchcliffe, Peter, and Ed Jewinski, eds. Magic Realism and Canadian Literature: Essays and Stories.
     Waterloo: U of Waterloo P, 1986.
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.
Kalogeras, Yiorgos, "Magic Realism in American Literature: The Case of Ethnic and Minority Literatures," Porphyras
      41-42(1987), 305-309.
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.
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.
Levine, Suzanne Jill, "A Second Glance at the Spoken Mirror: Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Virginia Woolf," INTI:Revista De
      Literatura Hispanica, 16-17 (Otono 1982-Primavera 1983), 53-60.
Levitt, Morton P. "From Realism to Magic Realism: The Meticulous Modernist Fictions of Garcia Marquez,"
      in Bradley Shaw.
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.
MacAdam, A.J. Modern Latin American Narrative: The Dreams of Reason.
     Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1977.
Martin, Gerald. Journeys Through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century.
      New York: Verso, 1989.
--------."On 'magical' and social realism in Garcia Marquez," in McQuirk et al.
McQuirk, Bernard, and Richard Caldwell, eds. Gabriel García Márquez: New Readings.
     Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1987.
McMurray, George, "Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction," Colorado State Review 8, 2 (1981), 3-20.
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, "José Arcadio Buendia's Scientific Paradigms: Man in Search of Himself," in Bloom.
--------. "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.
Monleón, José B., A Specter is Haunting Europe: A Sociohistorical Approach to the Fantastic.
     Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990.
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. Ed. Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction.
     Austin: U of Texas Press, 1988.
 --------.Poetics of Change: The New Spanish-American Narrative. Trans. Galen D. Greaser.
     Austin: U of Texas P, 1984.
Pinsker, Sanford, "Magical Realism, Historical Truth, and the Quest for a Liberating Identity: Reflections on Alex Haley's
      Roots and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." In Studies in Black American Literature Volume I: Black American
      Prose Theory.Ed. Joe Weixlmann and Chester Fontenot. Greenwood, Fl: Penkevill 1984, 183-197.
Rabinowitz, Paula, "Naming, Magic, and Documentary: The Subversion of the Narrative in Song of Solomon, Ceremony,
     and China Men." In Feminist Revisions:What Has Been and Might Be. Ed. Vivian Patraka and Louise Tilly.
     Ann Arbor: Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan, 1983, 26-42.
Retamar, Roberto Fernandez. Caliban and Other Essays. Trans. Edward Baker.
     Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.
Rodo, José Enrique. Ariel. 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.
Schroeder, Shannin. Rediscovering Magical Realism in the Americas.
     Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
Shaw, Bradley, and Nora Vera-Godwin, eds. Critical Perspectives on Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
     Lincoln, Nebraska: Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, 1986.
Simpkins, Scott, "Magical Strategies: The Supplement of Realism," Twentieth Century Literature, 1988(Summer),
      34:2, 140-154.
Slemon, Stephen, "Magic Realism as a Postcolonial Discourse," Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988), 2-24.
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," 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.[Introduction à la littérature
      fantastique,1970] Trans. Richard Howard. Ithaca: Cornell UP , 1975.
Young, David, and Keith Hagarman, eds. Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology.
     New York: Longman, 1984.
Williamson, Edwin, "Magical realism and the theme of incest in One Hundred Years of Solitude," in McQuirk et al.
Wilson, Robert Rawdon, "On the Boundary of the Magic and the Real:Notes on Inter-American Fiction," Compass 6
     (Spring 1979), 37-53.
Wood, Michael. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude.
     Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1990.
Zamora, Lois Parkinson, and Wendy B. Faris, eds. Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community.
     Durham and London: Duke U P, 1995.