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The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves itself into the supernatural an indication that the whole literary project of 'magical realism' is an instrumental and representational form which can be regarded as particularly suitable for reconciling dichotomies and oppositions otherwise experienced as intolerable? Was 'magical realism' an explosive process in cultural dynamics, taking place at intersections of heterogeneous cultures most favourable to the efflorescence of this type of literature? The authors of the various essays - on Patrick White and David Malouf, Ben Okri, Syl Cheney-Coker, Robert Kroetsch, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Jack Hodgins, Salman Rushdie, Janet Frame, Wilson Harris and others - provide a dynamic focus on the reality at stake beneath the surface representations of 'magical realism' in post-colonial literatures.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- English literature --- Decolonization in literature --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Réalisme magique (Littérature) --- Littérature anglaise --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- 820 <100> --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Réalisme magique (Littérature) --- Littérature anglaise --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- Kroetsch, Robert Paul --- Malouf, David --- Okri, Ben --- Rushdie, Salman --- White, Patrick --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism - Congresses. --- Magic realism (Literature) - Congresses. --- English literature - Developing countries - History and criticism - Congresses. --- Decolonization in literature - Congresses. --- Magical realism (Literature) --- Fantasy fiction --- Surrealism --- Magic in literature --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Realism in literature --- Couto (mia) --- Frame (janet), 1924-2004 --- Hodgins (jack) --- Laing (kojo) --- Macewen (gwendolyn) --- Realisme magique (litterature) --- Rosenblatt (joe) --- Vladislavic (ivan)