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Colonial Trauma in Márquez and Rushdie’s Magical Realism [PDF]

Fields, 2015
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children are hallmarks of the genre of magical realism. A typically problematic genre in terms of classification, this article looks at magical realism from a Freudian
Miller, Rachel
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French Literature: From Realism to Magical Realism

Jurnal Poetika, 2020
The purpose of the article is to explore the evolution of French literature between the late 19th century and early 21st century. Although French literature has long been dominated by rationalistic ways of thinking, based on the thoughts of René ...
Faruk, Faruk, Rokhman, Arif, Shahab, Ali
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The Refraction of Magical Realism—On the Misreading and Interpretation of “Magical Realism” in China

Studies in Linguistics and Literature
This paper explores the cross-cultural reception and reinterpretation of Latin American magical realism in China through the theoretical lens of David Damrosch’s concept of “refraction” in world literature. It argues that magical realism, originally a postcolonial narrative strategy rooted in Latin American historical trauma and political critique ...
Li, Kunfei
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The Silliness of Magical Realism [PDF]

The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, 2018
Professors Allen and Pardo champion "relative plausibility" to explain the standards of proof. But even after countless explanatory articles, it remains an underdeveloped model bereft of underlying theory. Multivalent logic, a fully developed and accepted system of logic, comes to the same endpoint as relative plausibility. Multivalent logic would thus
Kevin M. Clermont, Cornell Law Library
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Magical realism in South Asia

, 2020
Magical realism is a world literary genre that stages and enables radical crossing of illicit boundaries. Intradiegetically, the mode explores questions of faith on the same ontological level as rationality.
Bhattacharya, Sourit, Sourit Bhattacharya   +1 more
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Traversing Magical Realism in Postcolonial Literature

, 2022
This article aims at traversing historical traces, concepts, and characteristics of magical realism and how it is pertinent in literary analysis. The pivot of the conceptual framework of this article in on Faris’ perspective on magical realism.
Setiawan, Rahmat, Nurhidayah, Sri
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Faith, Identity and Magical Realism in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons

, 2021
This article adopts a literary analytical approach to illuminate the use of magical realism in the contemporary Anglophone Arab narrative of Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons (2019).
Arkhagha, Leen, Awad, Yousef
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Space, Time, Memory : Magical Realism and Postcolonialism in Hugo Loetscher’s Prose

, 2020
: Since the publication of Gabriel García Márquez’ "Cien años de soledad" ("One hundred Years of Solitude") in 1967, Magical Realism has been a style of writing that has aroused great interest both among literary critics and the readership and has been ...
Hernández González, María Isabel
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The Cosmopolitics of Magical Realism in Cinema

, 2023
The term 'magical realism' gained international popularity with the boom in Latin American literary fiction in the 1950s and 1960s. More recently, this term has been used in postcolonial contexts, particularly as part of the decolonisation process ...
Neo, David (14353836)
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Magical Realism in The Madrigal Family in Film Encanto (2021)

, 2023
Encanto (2021) is a movie set in a village in the mountains of Colombia. Encanto has a family background where each family member has magical gifts that are useful to help the villagers.
Pratama Mario, Danang Putra
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