This collection of essays is based on a conference that was hosted on 27–28 April 2024 in the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University,and co-ordinated by Professor Stephen M.Hart.This conference brought to...
This paper begins by suggesting that travel between China and the Americas occurred long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus from Europe in the Caribbean,and the conference on“Latin America and China in World ...
The term magic(al)realism originated some one hundred years ago.Since then,it has been used to cover sometimes widely divergent literary productions.My argument will be that the success of magic(al)realism results fro...
Whilst the theoretical study of magical realist literature is broad and wide-ranging,there is a remarkable lack of consensus among critics on how the mode should be defined,how its techniques should be described,and h...
In this essay I will investigate the minor yet significant presence of animals in magical realist texts.That presence follows two main threads:what we might call“memories of the future”and“world spirit.”They are d...
This paper explores the complexities of bringing the imaginative extremes of magical realism to the physical realm of the stage.Magical realism famously challenges the reader by demanding not just a suspension of beli...
This paper examines how two contemporary Latin American films—Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona and Ernesto Contreras’s Sueño en otro idioma—engage with physical and cultural genocide through distinct deployments of f...
In this essay I focus on a subject that has not been treated at any great length in the past,that is,the relationship between magical realism and the videogame.This is surprising because even a cursory glance at the t...
Known for her unconventional approach to shaping feminist aesthetics through writing,Virginia Woolf portrays a woman painter’s quest for autonomy in the novel To the Lighthouse.Critics have probed Woolf’s insightful...
Despite the large body of literature on Lady Macbeth,little research has been undertaken to demonstrate the relationship between the invocation by Lady Macbeth in the first act and the final dreams that imprison her.F...