Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie.(Book Review) From: MELUS | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Saumell, Rafael E. | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: U of Texas P, 2003. 157 pages. $30.00 cloth.

The most engaging and controversial aspect of Aldama's book is his argument concerning "lo real maravilloso," a term and a theory coined by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980). Miguel Angel Asturias's (1899-1974) ideas on the topic are also under Aldama's rigo...

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