Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers : Dissertationsschrift (Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS) 6) （2022. 198 S. 210 mm）

Babakhani, Nasrin/ Herausgegeben:Kley, Antje

PETER LANG（2022発売）

PETER LANG（2022発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 198 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783631877548

Full Description

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.

Contents

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.