Salman Rushdie and Magic Realism

Contents: Introduction. 1. History of magic realism. 2. Definition and scope of magic realism. 3. Common features of magic realism. 4. Most common manifestations of magic realism. 5. Relation to other genres and literary movements. 6. Magic realism as a post colonial tradition. 7. Role of magic realism in literature. 8. The pioneers: gunter grass's tin drum. 9. Gabriel garcia's one hundred years of solitude. 10. Rushdie's life and works. 11. Magic realism in midnight's children. 12. Comparative analysis of the three magic realist texts. `3. Rushdie's influence on Indian writers. Notes and references.

"Magic realism, a term coined by Alejo Carptentier in 1949 to describe a new trend of writing that blended fantastic elements into realistic settings, has gradually grown into a literary phenomenon to be reckoned with. It has produced literary masterpieces like Gunter Grass's Tin Drum and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred years of Solitude which have stood the test of time and have been hailed as influential to world literature as a whole. Both of them have collectively influence a third work of similarly gigantic magnitude, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. This book critiques the three major works in question, along with the similarities and dissimilarities between the styles of the three authors and the themes of the works, with a special focus on Salman Rushdie." (jacket)