Magic Realism in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees
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Jun, 2014
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The IUP Journal of English Studies
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Article
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IJES31406
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Indira Reddy
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English Studies
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Abstract
Magic realism is a literary movement associated with a style of writing that incorporates supernatural events into realistic narrative without questioning the improbability of the events. Here is an attempt to show how the concept of magic realism is applied in two popular magic realist texts—Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees. Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is one of the classics that incorporated magic realism. By exploring magic realism in Canadian literature by a close reading of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s first novel Fall on Your Knees, one can observe the justification of the formal and thematic dimensions of magic realism by presenting the story of a mixed-race Cape Breton family from a lesbian feminist perspective.
Description
The term “Magic Realism” was first coined in 1925 by Franz Roh, a German art
critic, to support a new direction in European painting, a return to Realism after
Expressionism’s abstract style.
The literary significance of Roh’s phrase, Magic Realism, came into clearer focus in the 1950s and the 1960s when various Latin American writers used it. Magic Realism is a literary movement associated with a style of writing or technique that incorporates magical or supernatural events into realistic narrative without questioning the improbability of the events. Here is an attempt to show how the concept of magic realism is applicable to two popular magic realist texts—Salman Rushdie’s (2006) Midnight’s Children, MacDonald’s (1996) Fall on Your Knees.
Keywords
English Studies Journal, Magic Realism, Rushdie, Midnight, Children, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Troubled Areas, Alienation, Fall on Your Knees.
