The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism: Marvelous Ecologies and Postnatural Disasters in Latin America - Charlotte Rogers - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226854960 - December 21, 2026
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Charlotte Rogers
The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism: Marvelous Ecologies and Postnatural Disasters in Latin America

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An exploration of magical realism’s contemporary resurgence, as writers attempt to capture the realities of climate change. What literary mode could possibly convey the extent of today’s climate catastrophes? In The Surprising New Life of Magical Realism, Charlotte Rogers argues that the answer is magical realism, a genre whose defining characteristic is to make the unbelievable an unremarkable part of everyday life. She pairs classic works by Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, and Rosario Ferré with contemporary novels by Carlos Fonseca, Fernanda Melchor, and Rita Indiana to show how the techniques of magical realism enable new approaches to scenes of environmental collapse and social injustice.

Challenging widespread accounts of the genre’s decline, Rogers shows that the signature aesthetics of magical realism—the marvelous, the amazing, the strange—are integral to twenty-first-century fiction.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
To be released December 21, 2026
ISBN13 9780226854960
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   454 g

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