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Project
'It's Some Kind Of Magic': Exploring the usefulness of the term 'Magical Realism' for contemporary arabic literature
By a close reading of six Arabophone novels that originate from diverse geographical, cultural and religious settings, this project investigates to what extent magical realism's genre theory, mainly based on Latin-American examples, offers a fruitful framework for analyzing Arabic novels that are considered magical realist, and whether this framework needs to be adapted to the specific local context.
Date:1 Oct 2011 → 1 Jun 2012
Keywords:interculturality, post-nationalism, magical realism, anti-authoritarianism, modern Arabic literature, post-colonialism, post-modernism
Disciplines:Literary studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies, Language studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies