Magic Realism and World Literature- Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures

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Vol. 8 No. 2 Dec. 2024

Magic Realism and World Literature

Author：Theo D’HAEN Time：2025-01-13 Click：

Magic Realism and World Literature

Theo D’HAEN

KU Leuven

Page 013-025

Abstract:The term magic(al) realism originated some one hundred years ago. Since then, it has been used to cover sometimes widely divergent literary productions. My argument will be that the success of magic(al) realism results from how it resonates with a set of literary-critical dispensations changing over time. I will discuss four of these.

Keywords:Magical Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, World Literature

DOI:10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202402003

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