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From Social Realism to Magic Realism
Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies - International Symposium Proceedings, 2023Entire layers of fiction in retrospective light might escape the attention of modern literary criticism. Russian speaking writers and poets living in Kazakhstan introduce elements of Kazakh culture into their work: these are details of Kazakh life, song culture, and the bright imagery inherent in Kazakh literature and its unique artistic flavor ...
S.V. Ananyeva, A.K. Kalieva
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Epistemic security and the redemptive hegemony of magical realism
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2023This article develops the concept of epistemic security as a form of ontological security. Epistemic security denotes a sense of redemptive hegemony that derives from participation in ritualised schemes of epistemic authority.
Xymena Kurowska
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Frankétienne's Magical Realism
Journal of Haitian Studies:This article examines the intersection of spiralism and magical realism in Frankétienne's Dézafi and Les Affres d'un défi, addressing a critical gap in the scholarship: to date, no study has identified the features these novels share with the tradition ...
J. Jean-Pierre
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Melancholic, Hopeful Magical Realism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
Texas Studies in Literature and Language:This essay examines how the African American writer magical realist novel Sing, Unburied, Sing elicits melancholic hope: hope that does not conceive of history as linearly progressive and is conscious of past casualties.
N. Kim
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"The Role Of Magical Realism In Shaping African American Identity In Toni Morrison's Novel"
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social ScienceThis research paper embarks on a captivating exploration of the profound and intricate narrative technique of magical realism within the literary world of renowned American author Toni Morrison.
Snehlata Dubey, Angel Ruth Shalom
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Enacting the Impossible: Techniques and Limitations of Staging Magical Realism
Journal of Foreign Languages and CulturesThis paper explores the complexities of bringing the imaginative extremes of magical realism to the physical realm of the stage. Magical realism famously challenges the reader by demanding not just a suspension of belief but also a suspension of ...
M. Bowers
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Magical Realism: The “Problem of Definition”
Journal of Foreign Languages and CulturesWhilst the theoretical study of magical realist literature is broad and wide-ranging, there is a remarkable lack of consensus among critics on how the mode should be defined, how its techniques should be described, and how it corresponds with both the ...
Elisa M. Nightingale
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Critical Inquiry, 1986
The concept of "magic realism" raises many problems, both theoretical and historical. I first encountered it in the context of American painting in the mid-1950s; at about the same time, Angel Flores published an influential article (in English) in which the term was applied to the work of Borges;' but Alejo Carpentier's conception of the real ...
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The concept of "magic realism" raises many problems, both theoretical and historical. I first encountered it in the context of American painting in the mid-1950s; at about the same time, Angel Flores published an influential article (in English) in which the term was applied to the work of Borges;' but Alejo Carpentier's conception of the real ...
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