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Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism

Strategizing Belonging

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Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of belonging. This usage is traced closely in the novels of Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Cristina García, and Helen Oyeyemi.

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  • Wheaton College, USA

    Kim Anderson Sasser

About the author

Kim Anderson Sasser is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College where she has taught courses including Modern Global Literature, Magical Realism, and West African Literature. Her areas of interest include twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone fiction, magical realism, cosmopolitanism, and postcolonial literature and theory.

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