Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism and Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature in English.

Coterminous Worlds: Magical Realism and Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature in English, ed. Elsa Linguanti et al. Cross/Cultures 39. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999. ISBN 9042004487.

The editors of Coterminous Worlds have put together a valuable collection of essays that consider magical realism in light of post-colonial studies. The introduction notes that magical realism offers ways for writers to engage with Otherness within the text itself. A number of the contributors point out the dry nihilism of postmodernism and, by contrast, the inventiveness of magical realism, in its efforts to find ways to depict simultaneous (and often contradictory) cultural traditions and …