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2019
“Magical realism” (or “magic realism”) has given extensive service to the attempt to provide an overarching characterization of Latin American writing, or to identify a mode of Latin American writing that draws a line between what is touted as paradigmatically Latin American and poor imitations of privileged models.
David William Foster, Rosita Scerbo
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“Magical realism” (or “magic realism”) has given extensive service to the attempt to provide an overarching characterization of Latin American writing, or to identify a mode of Latin American writing that draws a line between what is touted as paradigmatically Latin American and poor imitations of privileged models.
David William Foster, Rosita Scerbo
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2013
It is dangerous to cultivate binaries, but we all do it, at least as prelude to undoing them. Let’s then entertain the notion that for many literary scholars magical realism constitutes a triumph, a genre for the times with an expanding worldwide audience, while for many others it is tantamount to a compensatory aesthetic, or even a dead-end ideology ...
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It is dangerous to cultivate binaries, but we all do it, at least as prelude to undoing them. Let’s then entertain the notion that for many literary scholars magical realism constitutes a triumph, a genre for the times with an expanding worldwide audience, while for many others it is tantamount to a compensatory aesthetic, or even a dead-end ideology ...
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Magical Realism and the Fantastic
2018In this chapter we encounter the zoharic representation of reality as an enchanted realm, one in which miracles erupt in the ordinary stream of human events, where ordinary experience opens into an alternate reality of the fantastic. In many zoharic cases, I have argued, these narrative scenes may be characterized as instances of magical realism, a ...
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