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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Realismo mágico vs. Lo real maravilloso americano -- The Need for a New Term: Diasporic Marvellous Realism -- A First Approach to Diasporic Marvellous Realism -- Rethinking Historical Epistemology -- An Overview of Diasporic Marvellous Realism and History in Literature -- The Rational-Speculative View: Supernatural Beings and the Middle Passage in Nalo Hopkinson’s The New Moon’s Arms -- The Dilemma of Framing Caribbean Diasporic Identity -- An Overview of Diasporic Marvellous Realism and Identity in Literature -- Arcane Disruption of Nature and Its Imaginary: The Land-Spirits of Cyril Dabydeen’s Dark Swirl -- Remembering the Caribbean from the Diaspora -- An Overview of Diasporic Marvellous Realism and Memory in Literature -- Repressed Trauma Cannot Escape Memory’s Hauntings: David Chariandy’s Soucouyant -- Final Remarks on Diasporic Marvellous Realism -- Works Cited -- Index.

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Diasporic Marvellous Realism highlights the interesting switch in perspective found in contemporary literary production where the supernatural is regarded from a diasporic perspective as marvellous rather than magical. The titular term is applied to the influence of transterritorialization on the works of first- and second generation immigrant writers when approaching and exploring the myths and legends of their culture of origin. The texts included in this analysis show that the employment of this literary philosophy and narrative technique in contemporary literature involves a fruitful refocusing of the rhetorical gaze regarding the importance of cultural heritage as vindicatory resistance to the lacunae of history and as celebratory re-enfranchisement of diasporic communities in host countries such as Canada and the UK.