Magic Realism | Essays and Criticism

  • The Magic Realism Movement as a New Form of Social Protest

    Piano is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Bowling Green University in Ohio. In this essay, Piano analyzes the literature of the Magic Realism movement as a new form of social protest to oppressive governments and imperial powers through the use of history and myth, supernatural events, and folkloric tropes as an antidote to narratives of progress and rationality.

  • Magic Realism: A Typology

    In the following essay, Spindler explores the origination of the term “Magic Realism,” and attempts “to put forward a framework that will incorporate the different manifestations of Magic Realism into one single model.”