Introduction : daiquiri birds and Flaubertian parrot(ie)s / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris -- Magic Realism : Post-Expressionism / Franz Roh -- Magic Realism, New Objectivity, and the arts during the Weimar Republic / Irene Guenther -- On the marvelous real in America ; The Baroque and the marvelous real / Alejo Carpentier -- Magical realism in Spanish American fiction / Angel Flores -- Magical realism in Spanish American literature / Luis Leal -- The territorialization of the imaginary in Latin America : self-affirmation and resistance to metropolitan paradigms / Amaryll Chanady -- Sources of magic realism, supplements to realism in contemporary Latin American literature / Scott Simpkins -- Scheherazade's children : magical realism and postmodern fiction / Wendy B. Faris -- Magic realism and postmodernism : decentering privileged centers / Theo L. D'haen -- The metamorphoses of fictional space : magical realism / Rawdon Wilson -- The textualization of the reader in magical realist fiction / Jon Thiem -- Psychic realism, mythic realism, grotesque realism : variations on magic realism in contemporary literature in English / Jeanne Delbaere-Garant -- Magical realism, compensatory vision, and felt history : classical realism transformed in The white hotel / John Burt Foster Jr. -- Past-on stories : history and the magically real, Morrison and Allende on call / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Narrative trickery and performative historiography : fictional representation of national identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey, and Mordecai Richler / Richard Todd -- Saleem fathered by Oskar : Midnight's children, magic realism, and The tin drum / Patricia Merivale -- Magical archetypes : midlife miracles in The satanic verses / Steven F. Walker -- Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier : nature, history, and the Caribbean writer / David Mikics -- Magic realism as postcolonial discourse / Stephen Slemon -- Metoikoi and magical realism in the Maghrebian narratives of Tahar ben Jelloun and Abdelkebir Khatibi / John Erickson -- The magic of identity : magic realism in modern Japanese fiction / Susan J. Napier -- 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" / Melissa Stewart -- Magical romance/magical realism : ghosts in U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora.