Magic Realism Summary

In the following essay, Simpkins attempts to define magic realism and argues that the genre is hindered by linguistic limitations. Magic realism seems plagued by a distinct dilemma, a problem arisi... Read more

In the following essay, Menton discusses the influence of Latin-American magic-realist writers on André Schwarz-Bart's novel Le dernier des Justes. André Schwarz-Bart's ... Read more

In the following essay, Ji Ji discusses magic realism in the works of contemporary Taiwanese writers. I In any age works of literature are created against a unique background with a specific emphas... Read more

In the following essay, Menton discusses the works of Jorge Luis Borges and the difference between magic realism and fantastic, or marvelous, literature. In the epilogue to the 1949 edition of El A... Read more

In the following essay, Benevento suggests strategies for teaching about magic realism in the works of three preeminent Latin-American writers. As David Young and Keith Hollaman note in their intro... Read more

In the following essay, Wheelock explains the notion of “magical causality” in the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. Fifty-two years ago Jorge Luis Borges wrote an... Read more

In the following essay, Mills examines magic realism in Gabriel García Márquez's novella Eréndira and his screenplay for the film. “Magic realism” is a ter... Read more

In the following essay, Alter provides an overview of Israeli novels containing elements of magic realism. Until the publication in 1986 of David Grossman's spectacular second novel, See Und... Read more

In the following essay, Rabinowitz examines magic realism in works by American minority women. I write as an outsider. As a woman, I will always be an outsider within patriarchal culture, as a whit... Read more

In the following essay, Saldivar traces the magic realism in the works of Ntozake Shange to both Latin-American and Afro-Caribbean influences. It is probably true that critics of African and Afro-A... Read more

In the following essay, Aizenberg contends that magic realism as it appears in Ben Okri's The Famished Road, as well as the works of other writers, frequently comments on social ills. My top... Read more

In the following essay, Gaensbauer describes Leonora Carrington's works of magic realism as “subversive voyages of self-discovery.” Surrealism has always been associated with t... Read more

In the following essay, Clark discusses magic realism in works by women writers of the Riverplate region of Argentina and Uruguay. The Riverplate region of Argentina and Uruguay witnessed a floweri... Read more

In the following essay, Hayes describes the magic realism of Gloria Naylor's novel Mama Day and the writing of other African Americans as “postmodern subversiveness at its best. Three... Read more

In the following essay, Andrews argues for a revision of definitions of magic realism in Canadian literature based on Ann-Marie MacDonald's lesbian feminist novel Fall on Your Knees. Magic r... Read more

In the following essay, Ude examines magic realism in the works of early American writers. A nation's literature cannot be studied only through the examination of content; a history of liter... Read more

In the following essay, Hamblin discusses magic realism in the baseball stories of W. P. Kinsella. As Robert Francis's well-known poem, “Pitcher,” persuades us, the actions and... Read more

In the following essay, Hancock provides an overview of magic realism in Canadian writing, arguing that Canada's vast wilderness and archeological history encourage a sense of the marvelous in ... Read more