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 M�rquez�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 Pell�n, University of Virginia: �Why are Europeans and North Americans Obsessed with Magical Realism?�