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Exploring Magic Realism Salman Rushdie's Fiction
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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.
In its rigorous analysis of this Rushdian magic realism, this book considers the entire corpus—
, and
. This study is the first of its kind to do so.