Physical Description
vii, 206 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction
The dream of the end of the world: magic realism, knowledge, and Holocaust history in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated
Magic realism and dialogic postmemory: David Grossman's See under: love
Trauma and the grotesque body: D.M. Thomas's The white hotel
The light of dead stars: magic realist time in André Schwarz-Bart's The last of the just
'Into eternity's certain breadth': ambivalent escape in Markus Zusak's The book thief
Conclusion.
ISBN
9780230280298
0230280293 (alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-201) and index.
Introduction -- The dream of the end of the world: magic realism, knowledge, and Holocaust history in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated -- Magic realism and dialogic postmemory: David Grossman's See under: love -- Trauma and the grotesque body: D.M. Thomas's The white hotel -- The light of dead stars: magic realist time in André Schwarz-Bart's The last of the just -- 'Into eternity's certain breadth': ambivalent escape in Markus Zusak's The book thief -- Conclusion.
