Table of Contents:
  • Louise Erdrich's "Father's milk" : magical realism's oxymoronic nature
  • Mimesis, realism, and counter-realisms
  • Romance, the imaginary, and magical realism
  • The crisis of representation : post-realism, postmodernism, magical realism
  • Juxtaposed realities : magical reaslim and/as postcolonial experience
  • From identity to alter-entity : trans-selving the self in magical realist narratives
  • Of a magical nature : the environmental unconscious
  • A negative sense of reality.