""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris - Introduction: Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s""; ""I. Foundations""; ""Franz Roh - Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925)""; ""Irene Guenther - Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the Arts during the Weimar Republic""; ""Alejo Carpentier - On the Marvelous Real in America (1949)""; ""Alejo Carpentier - The Baroque and the Marvelous Real (1975)""; ""Angel Flores - Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction (1955)""; ""Luis Leal - Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature (1967)""
""Amaryll Chanady - The Territorialization of the Imaginary in Latin America: Self-Affirmation and Resistance to Metropolitan Paradigms""""Scott Simpkins - Sources of Magic Realism/Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature""; ""II. Theory""; ""Wendy B. Faris - Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction""; ""Theo L. D'haen - Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers""; ""Rawdon Wilson - The Metamorphoses of Fictional Space: Magical Realism""; ""Jon Thiem - The Textualization of the Reader in Magical Realist Fiction""
""Jeanne Delbaere-Garant - Psychic Realism, Mythic Realism, Grotesque Realism: Variations on Magic Realism in Contemporary Literature in English""""III. History""; ""John Burt Foster Jr. - Magical Realism, Compensatory Vision, and Felt History: Classical Realism Transformed in The White Hotel""; ""P. Gabrielle Foreman - Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call""; ""Richard Todd - Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler""
""Patricia Merivale - Saleem Fathered by Oskar: Midnight's Children, Magic Realism, and The Tin Drum""""Steven F. Walker - Magical Archetypes: Midlife Miracles in The Satanic Verses""; ""David Mikics - Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature, History, and the Caribbean Writer""; ""IV. Community""; ""Stephen Slemon - Magic Realism as Postcolonial Discourse""; ""John Erickson - Metoikoi and Magical Realism in the Maghrebian Narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi""; ""Susan J. Napier - The Magic of Identity: Magic Realism in Modern Japanese Fiction""
""Melissa Stewart - Roads of ""Exquisite Mysterious Muck"": The Magical Journey through the City in William Kennedy's Ironweed, John Cheever's ""The Enormous Radio,"" and Donald Barthelme's ""City Life""""""Lois Parkinson Zamora - Magical Romance/Magical Realism: Ghosts in U.S. and Latin American Fiction""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
