About this volume ; On magical realism as in international phenomenon in the twenty-first century / Ignacio López-Calvo -- Theories of magical realism / Erik Camayd-Freixas -- Magical realism and its discontents / Juan E. De Castro -- Magical realism and subaltern studies / Maggie Ann Bowers -- Magic and realism in history : magical realism vs. the fantastic today / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- When magical realism loses its spell : revisiting Gabriel García Márquez's Of love and other demons / Rudyard J. Alcocer -- The plague of modernity : Macondo, Inc. and the branding of "magical" Latin America / Martín Camps -- History, ethnography, and magical realism in Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's The diffuse biography of Sombra Castañeda / Fernando Valerio-Holguín -- The construction of the magic and the role of popular religion in the Caribbean context / Ángel L. Estévez -- The unbearable weight of being in Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho's Cachalote / David William Foster -- Underdogs and beautiful lies : magical realism in the second world / Nicholas Birns -- Proliferation : the case for magical realisms from Oyeyemi's The Icarus girl / Kim Anderson Sasser -- Panthers and jaguars : realism and responsibility in Salman Rushdie's Shame / Rachel Trousdale -- The shadow of magical realism in José Luis Cuerda's 1980s films / Ignacio López-Calvo.