Document Type
Article
First Advisor
Rebecca Belcher-Rankin
Publication Date
2016
Scholarship Domain(s)
Scholarship of Discovery
Abstract
In the world of literature, magic realism has yet to find its place as an established genre or style. The following paper posits that magic realism stems from marginalized writers in a postcolonial diaspora, attempting to make sense of their world without the influence of Western gaze. Gabriel García Márquez in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Salman Rushdie in his novel Midnight’s Children, and Toni Morrison in her novel Paradise use similar elements of magic realism in order to establish a grounding mythology for their cultures. These three novels can demonstrate the direction of fiction that uses magic realism: one where the marginalized overturn the characteristics of the dominant discourse and take their place in the world of writing.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Sarah, "A New Definition of Magic Realism: An Analysis of Three Novels as Examples of Magic Realism in a Postcolonial Diaspora" (2016). Honors Program Projects. 82.
https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/honr_proj/82
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Comments
Honors Cohort 6