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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"magical realism"”.
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Paradidomi: magical realism and the American South
… The<br/>Mathers’ Land, draws on traditions of magical realism, storytelling, memory and metafiction.<br/>The framing narrative of the novel follows Luanne Richardson, a librarian who has moved<br/>South with her new boyfriend, Kenneth Miers. As soon as they arrive in Peebles, …
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The magical realism of metaphor: cross-cultural comparisons in use of metaphor in cognition
Three experiments explore the hypothesis that due to linguistic and cultural factors, metaphor usage – or thinking in terms of what something is like – differs across cultures. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision task supported the hypothesis that perception of what something is like tends to be …
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Momentary Magic: Magical Realism as Literary Activism in the Post-Cold War US Ethnic Novel
… In this era, some US writers of color turned to magical realism – a genre typically associated with Latin American authors of the 1960s – to criticize social injustice through the use of magic. Magical realism interrogates historical and social conditions through supernatural, mythical, or other …
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At the end of Magnolia Street: five chapters of Southern magical realism with a craft essay
“At the End of Magnolia Street” is a magical realism novel set in a fictional rural town in Middle Tennessee, taking place from the early 1990s through the 2000s. The novel explores the challenges a family can both create and endure together, following the lives of two girls as they struggle …
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Magical realism and subjective reality : an investigation of poetic symbolism and the development of related sculptures
… sculptural parallel to (but not illustrative of) Magical Realist literature, in which arcane phenomena are incorporated into a narrative in order to achieve just such a sense of subjective reality.
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"The Fantastic And Magical Realism In The Contemporary Mexican Short Story As A Reflection Of ""lo Mexicano"""
… and application of the terms, Fantastic and Magical Realism, to works of prose fiction in Latin America. An effort is also made to contrast and compare the two concepts and to show how these two narrative modes have been used by Mexican writers to explore national reality. The contribution of …
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A comparative analysis of Afrofuturism, magical realism and African mythology in Namwali serpell's The old drift and Marlon Jame's Black leopard red wolf: An afrocentric perspective
Afrofuturism, Magical Realism and African Mythology are genres in literary fiction that can be used by authors and writers to explore difficult themes, complex characters, speculative settings and experimental plot points. While studies of these genres in literature exist, there has not been …
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The path of Lucius Park and other stories of John Valley
… the issue of perspective in realist and magical realist fiction, with special emphasis on magical realism and belief. The stories are a mix of realism and magical realism, and are unified by characters and the fictional setting of John Valley, FL.
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
… beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by Francine Prose, an American writer. The …
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The Marquess and Other Stories
… and one novella, all centered around themes of magical realism. These stories seek to examine the way in which small features of strangeness or wonder play out and affect the surrounding, otherwise normal and commonplace, world. They seek, also, to explore the definition of the term 'magical …
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Hidden Weather and Other Stories
… attitude toward reality that is in keeping with Magical Realism: the attitude that reality contains elements of magic—and that this is not really remarkable or odd. Magical Realism, as these stories serve to demonstrate, is fundamentally a realistic tradition, albeit one that includes elements of …
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Building for the unseen
Through parallelism with characteristics of magical realism, the building is materialized by deciphering the unseen images latent in ordinary life. WAAC radio station. Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia.
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Breaking the Bonds of Silence: The Immigrant Experience in Magical Realist Novels of Katherine Vaz and Chitra Divakaruni.
<p>The genre of Magical Realism is normally explored on the sole basis of its identification with and fantastic expression of Latin-American cultural identity. However, the genre, when employed by non-American immigrant women, takes on new characteristics. It not only highlights the mystical …
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Cross Over and Duality. Murakami’s Integration of the Fantastical into the Ordinary
… is set in modern day Japan, with some twists of magical realism such as talking cats, a spirit from the past and parallel dimensions. The impact of different crossovers and dualities on the novel as a whole is significant because crossovers and dualities allow magical realism to take place in the …
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Those We Replace
… are a blend of traditional narratives and magical realism. The majority of the stories are told from a third person point of view, but many of the stories also experiment with a first person plural point of view. This collection explores the themes of loss, family, and how a community will …
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Adapting Mozambique : representations of violence and trauma in Mozambican cinema and literature
… with special attention paid to the function of magical realism in both works. This chapter argues that Couto uses magical realism as a sort of coping mechanism which allows his characters to remain hopeful, while the relative absence of magical realism in Prata’s film results in an entirely …
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honeypot
… narrative, vignette, flash, borrowed form, and magical realism.</p>
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Everything Broken is Waiting to Be Fixed
… is Waiting to Be Fixed</em> is an Appalachian magical realism novel in stories about a boy who attempts to reconcile his childhood experiences and his family's oral history with his experiences as an adult living outside Appalachia. The book attempts to challenge readers to reexamine …
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