Magical Feminism
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10 Magical Feminist Books to Inspire Creative Resistance. 11 Short Story Collections that Practice Magical Feminism. Nathalie Clavijo's "Mi casa de los Espíritus (My house of spirits): Challenging patriarchy with magical feminism."
From Wikipedia: "Magical feminism is a subgenre of the magical realism literary genre. The term was first used in 1987 by Patricia Hart to describe the works of Isabel Allende.[1][2] More recent critical works on the subject feature such scholars as Ricci-James Adams or Kimberley Ann Wells. The term magical feminism refers to magical realism in a feminist discourse. Magical realism's basic assumption is the coexistence and effective merging of contradictory worldviews, the scientific and rational with the spiritual and magical. It grants equal ontological status to real figures and spirits, everyday occurrences and supernatural events. In its nature then is the subversion of monolithic cultural, social and political structures. It is a mode perfect for the writers who are in between, especially the postcolonial ones. The genre is magical realism in within the context of feminist discourse."
Note that magical realism is not a universally beloved nomenclature.
This post brought to you by some recent reading and research, wherein I became mildly irritated at articles about magical realism that ignored female authors in the genre other than Allende.
From Wikipedia: "Magical feminism is a subgenre of the magical realism literary genre. The term was first used in 1987 by Patricia Hart to describe the works of Isabel Allende.[1][2] More recent critical works on the subject feature such scholars as Ricci-James Adams or Kimberley Ann Wells. The term magical feminism refers to magical realism in a feminist discourse. Magical realism's basic assumption is the coexistence and effective merging of contradictory worldviews, the scientific and rational with the spiritual and magical. It grants equal ontological status to real figures and spirits, everyday occurrences and supernatural events. In its nature then is the subversion of monolithic cultural, social and political structures. It is a mode perfect for the writers who are in between, especially the postcolonial ones. The genre is magical realism in within the context of feminist discourse."
Note that magical realism is not a universally beloved nomenclature.
This post brought to you by some recent reading and research, wherein I became mildly irritated at articles about magical realism that ignored female authors in the genre other than Allende.
Thanks for this, very cool!
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