Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America

Newly available in paperback, this iconoclastic study draws on affect theory, the history of emotions, and new materialism to reconsider magical realism in the works of Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, and César Aira.

JERÓNIMO ARELLANO is an assistant professor of Latin American literature at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

- A Note on Translations- List of Figures- Acknowledgments- Introductions- I: Wonder in the Colonial Heart- 1. The Intermittence of the Marvelous- 2. Columbus’s First Journal and the Materiality of the Emotions- 3. Colonial Chronicles as Archives of Feelings- II: The Afterlives of Feelings- 4. Alejo Carpentier’s lo real maravilloso americano and the Colonial History of Wonder- 5. The Afterlives of Feelings: Wonder as Palimpsest in Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad- 6. In the Graveyards of Magical Realism: The Disaffection of the Marvelous and César Aira’s El mago- Bibliography- Index- About the Author