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Canadian Magical Realism

Other Canadian fantasy works include those by "mainstream" authors who use myth or magic to explore such themes as the nature of evil, the creative spirit, and the meaning of knowledge and faith. Timothy Findley, Brian Moore and W.P. Kinsella have used fantasy to comment on themes treated in their realist fiction as well.

A subgenre popular during the nineteenth century is animal fantasy--such as the works of Charles G.D. Roberts.

Bibliography

Hancock, Geoff. Editor

Magic Realism

Kinsella, W.P.

Shoeless Joe

Magic Realism

Hancock, Geoff (editor)
Toronto: Aya Press, 1980.

In this anthology of stories blending fantasy and reality, the magic springs from the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the normal and the abnormal.

Shoeless Joe

Kinsella, W.P.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1983, c1982.

"Build it and they will come." W.P. Kinsella's fantasy about bringing baseball heroes back to life gained fame as the feature movie, Field of Dreams. The movie title, chosen independently by the producer, had been Kinsella's original choice, but the editor of the novel preferred Shoeless Joe. Coincidence, fantasy or simply the way the genre works?

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