Mimesis, Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic RealismThrough a broad ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel and the epic in post colonial literature, Jean Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. He argues that, in the New Literatures which are often rooted in hybrid aesthetics, the often decried mimesis must be viewed from a completely different angle. Analysing texts by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Salman Rushdie, Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris and