B10: Magic Realism, the Fantastic, and Minority Identity

Seminar Leader: Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto

Friday, April 16, 10:30 AM  – 12:30 PM, Antrim

Nadine Roth, Simon Fraser University: “Franz Roh’s Nach-Expressionismus and the Origins of Magic Realism in the Weimar Republic”

Paulo Lemos Horta, University of Toronto: “‘Truths Mislaid’: Experience and Magic in Garcia Márquez’s Living to Tell the Tale and One Hundred Years of Solitude”

Kay Yandell, University of Wisconsin  – Madison: “Real Magic, Real Knowledge in The Autobiography of Pretty Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows”

Saturday, April 17, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Antrim

Patricia Gaborik, University of Wisconsin – Madison: “Massimo Bontempelli’s Magic Realism: Modern Representation of the Spirit of the Popolo”

Jennifer Clare Rodgers, Independent Scholar: “Fighting Words: Magical Realism and Revolution in Spanish America”

Alan Wald, University of Michigan: “Socialist Sur-Realism: Magic, the Fantastic, and the Grotesque in U. S. Left-Wing Literature in the Mid-Twentieth Century”

Sunday, April 18, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Antrim

Graham Barnfield, University of East London:  “The Road to Dogville: Spectacular Violence and the Inter-war Literary Left”

Gustavo Pellón, University of Virginia: “Why are Europeans and North Americans Obsessed with Magical Realism?”