ONLINE RESOURCES
Magical Realism Online Academic Resources
Introducing the Writers
- Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart introduction and "Study Guide," by Paul Brians at Washington State University
- Allende, Isabel, answers questions at BigThink.com
- Borges, Jorges Luis, interviewed at The Paris Review
- Brautigan, Richard, biography from the Poetry Foundation
- Breton, André, surrealist poems at PoemHunter
- Calvino, Italo, characterized in "Italo Calvino's Imaginary Real" by Salman Rushdie
- Carter, Angela, from The Guardian
- Cortázar, Julio, Hopscotch hypertext project and exploration from Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, and Robin Parmar at the University of Virginia
- Ghosh, Amitav, a broad and exuberant characterization in "Deconstructing Human Society: An Appreciation of Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies," by Ravi Bhushan and "Ms. Daisy"
- Grass, Günter, from The Washington Post: "Michael Dirda Reflects on Günter Grass's 'The Tin Drum'"
- Hodgins, Jack. Biography from the 2006 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia
- Hong Kingston, Maxine, honored by the National Book Foundation
- Kafka, Franz, Metamorphosis, translated by David Wyllie at Project Gutenberg
- Kroetsch, Robert, biography from Athabasca University
- Lampo, Hubert, briefly tributed at Expatica.com
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Overview of Latin American and Canadian magical realism in "Rethinking the Relevance of Magic Realism for English-Canadian Literature:Reading Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees", by Jennifer Andrews at the University of New Brunswick
- Marmon Silko, Leslie, Voices from the Gaps artist page at the University of Minnesota
- Mellville, Pauline. Mervyn Morris's "Cross-Cultural Impersonations: Pauline Melville's Shape Shifter"
- Morrison, Toni, scholarly article about Morrison's use of magical realism from Jakub Ženíšek at Charles University
- Nesbit, E., a fitting tribute from Gore Vidal circa 1964: "The Writing of E. Nesbit," in The New York Review of Books
- Okri, Ben, detailed examination in "Magically strategized belonging: magical realism as cosmopolitan mapping in Ben Okri, Cristina García, and Salman Rushdie," by Kimberly Danielle Anderson Sasser at the University of Edinburgh. Find the abstract here and the full-length article here.
- Paz, Octavio, biography and "My Life With the Wave," with questions for "Exploration of the Text"
- Rushdie, Salman, The Official Website
- Schaffert, Timothy, "The Obituary Writer Has the Upper Hand," from The New York Times
