Preliminary Material --Acknowledgements /Elsa Linguanti , Francesco Casotti , and Carmen Concilio --Introduction /Elsa Linguanti --Notes on Spanish-American Magical Realism /Tommaso Scarano --The Magic of Language in the novels of Patrick White and David Malouf /Carmen Concilio --Salman Rushdie's Special Effects /Shaul Bassi --Worlds, Things, Words Rushdie's style from Grimus to Midnight's Children /Carmen Dell'Aversano --Representing the Worlds Sanskrit poetics and the making of reality /Alessandro Monti --The Ragged Edge of Miracles or: A word or two on those Jack Hodgins novels /Lucia Boldrini --Bees, Bodies, and Magical Miscegenation Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said /Luca Biagiotti --Myth, Magic, and the Real in Gwendolyn MacEwen's Noman /Biancamaria Rizzardi Perutelli --Bewildered With Nature The magical-realist in Joe Rosenblatt /Alfredo Rizzardi --Coterminous Worlds /Robert Bringhurst --The Magic Reality of Memory Janet Frame's The Carpathians /Isabella Maria Zoppi --Re-Dreaming the World Ben Okri's shamanic realism /Renato Oliva --Reality and Magic in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar /PaoIo Bertinetti --"History never walks here, it runs in any direction" Carnival and magic in the novels of Kojo Laing and Mia Couto /Pietro Deandrea --Magical Realism Beyond the Wall of Apartheid? Missing Persons by Ivan Vladislavic /Valeria Guidotti --Wilson Harris A case apart /EIsa Linguanti --Works Cited /Elsa Linguanti , Francesco Casotti , and Carmen Concilio --Contributors /Elsa Linguanti , Francesco Casotti , and Carmen Concilio.