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Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers

Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers

Babakhani, Nasrin
Kley, Antje

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (Ceal, Book 6

English as a Second LanguageLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631877544
ISBN13: 9783631877548
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jun 15 2022
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all the selected novels are female-centric in that the main characters are women. The authors, also women, are from three diverse American ethnic groups from both the North and South. Through a close reading of several novels, Babakhani shows how the reinvention of cultural traditions serves these women writers as a political, decolonial, and feminist tool. Babakhani situates her readings in a critique of the concepts of realism and magical realism. Because magical realism sets realism against magic and implies binary oppositions, Babakhani proposes cultural realism as a revisionary concept that takes the cultural importance of rituals and beliefs seriously, without simply dismissing them as superstition.

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