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Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

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Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032925175
ISBN13: 9781032925172
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 14 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie's magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial.

In a departure from conventional descriptions of magic realism--based primarily on the Latin-American tradition--Kluwick here proposes an alternative definition, allowing for a more accurate description of the form. She argues that it is disharmony, rather than harmony, that is decisive: that the incompatibility of the realist and the supernatural needs to be recognized as a driving force in Rushdie's fiction.

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