Mythology, Magic Realism, and White Writing after Apartheid

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Chait
Keyword(s):  
Magic Realism

“Magic” Realism in Cervantes

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Serrano-Plaja ◽  
Robert S. Rudder
Keyword(s):  
Magic Realism

Magic Realism and Postmodernism

1995 ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo L. D’haen
Keyword(s):  
Magic Realism

scholarly journals Happy Existentialist Metaphors: Merleau-Ponty’s Flesh of the World and the Chandos Complex

Humanities ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Annabelle Dufourcq
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Essential Dimension ◽  
Magic Realism ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This article investigates the meaning of Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the flesh of the world. This concept brings a cosmological tone to existentialist phenomenology and challenges the grim and gnostic approach that prevails in Heidegger’s and Sartre’s works in particular. Is horror the key mood in ontology as argued by Malabou? This article contends that bright metaphors and magic realism are at least as fundamental, but under one condition: ontology must come to terms with what the author has coined as the “Chandos complex”, namely a form of ambivalence and oscillation between Gnosticism and holism that makes both positions fake and hollow. Dreaming of being one with the world and fantasizing an estrangement from nature work hand in hand and are equally staged. Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy occasionally falls prey to the Chandos complex, which makes his concept of the flesh of the world vulnerable to criticism. This article examines the claim put forward by Renaud Barbaras that “the flesh of the world” is a failed metaphor. It argues that this blissful metaphor is ontologically fundamental as soon as its intrinsic paradoxes are recognized and accepted: the Chandos complex then becomes the key to an ontology that recognizes the imaginary as an essential dimension of being. At stake is an essential link between ontology on the one hand and, on the other hand, metaphors as well as myth-building and narrative-building processes.

Magic Realism as Rewriting Postcolonial Identity: A Study of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Khum Prasad Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Magic Realism ◽  
Postcolonial Identity ◽  
Oppressed Group ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
Simultaneous Existence ◽  
Sense Of Reality ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Literary Narrative

Magic realism as a literary narrative mode has been used by different critics and writers in their fictional works. The majority of the magic realist narrative is set in a postcolonial context and written from the perspective of the politically oppressed group. Magic realism, by giving the marginalized and the oppressed a voice, allows them to tell their own story, to reinterpret the established version of history written from the dominant perspective and to create their own version of history. This innovative narrative mode in its opposition of the notion of absolute history emphasizes the possibility of simultaneous existence of many truths at the same time. In this paper, the researcher, in efforts to unfold conditions culturally marginalized, explores the relevance of alternative sense of reality to reinterpret the official version of colonial history in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children from the perspective of magic realism.  As a methodological approach to respond to the fiction text, magic realism endows reinterpretation and reconsideration of the official colonial history in reaffirmation of identity of the culturally marginalized people with diverse voices.

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