"Magical realism" is always sort of shunted off to the side, even though it has a lot in common with "urban fantasy." And urban fantasy by Latino or black writers is often shunted to the side as "magical realism".
I'll make a list of some of my favorite Latin@/Chican@ books that have fantasy elements. Did you know, btw, that May is Latino Book Month? I didn't!
For a long view, I'd recommend Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain, edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. (Wesleyan University Press, 2003).
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Date: 2009-05-13 11:07 pm (UTC)I'll make a list of some of my favorite Latin@/Chican@ books that have fantasy elements. Did you know, btw, that May is Latino Book Month? I didn't!
For a long view, I'd recommend Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain, edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. (Wesleyan University Press, 2003).