Examples Of Magic Realism In Midnight's Children

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Magic realism as an efficient tool to resolve the problems of post colonialism: A study of the select novel Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Abhibunnisha Begum,
Assistant Professor,
Department of English & Humanities,
Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences,
Sangivalasa, Bheemili Mandal,
Visakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh, INDIA.

“Magical realism combines realism and the fantastic in such a way that the magical elements grow organically out of the reality portrayed”. (Faris. 169)

The form of magic realism offers an ingenious and effective means of screening the “real” living experiences. Literary works are drawn ahead the conventions of both realism and fantasy or myth. In previously colonized countries numerous ‘schools’ …show more content…

There is always a room to remark on the clash of diverse cultures and the disparity of political, economic or social power. Magic realist writer pertain different rules to the world of fiction, but still embody them in a pragmatic way. They make the reader believes in the story as a matter-of-fact. In their story, the weirdness becomes known; the magical becomes real and the dead become alive. Hence, once the character accepts the magic, the reader will have a propensity to tag on automatically. The magical always has its valid place and is never questioned by the …show more content…

With its manifold realities and definite reference to the readers world, magic realism explores the brunt fiction has on reality, reality on fiction and the readers role in between; as such, it is well suited for drawing concentration to social or political disapproval. In addition, it is the tool paramount in the implementation of a related and major magic realist phenomenon: textualization. This expression defines two conditions first, where a fabricated reader enters the story within a story while reading it, making us self-conscious of our position as reader and secondly, where the textual world enters into the reader's world. Good sagacity would contradict this process but magic is the flexible topos that allows

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