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

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Latin America and the Tradition of Magical Realism - Cultural Realism and African American Women Writers - Cultural Realism and Native American Women Writers - Conclusion - Bibliography.  

Autoreninfo

Nasrin Babakhani researches in the areas of literary criticism, magical realism, realism postcolonialism, and feminism. She holds a Ph.D. in North American studies from the University of Göttingen.