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Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers (Hardcover, New edition)
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Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS), 6
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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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