02645nam 2200433 450 991082099790332120230809234508.01-5275-0082-9(CKB)4340000000205614(MiAaPQ)EBC5061804(Au-PeEL)EBL5061804(CaPaEBR)ebr11447821(OCoLC)1005613136(EXLCZ)99434000000020561420171025h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPatriarchy and power in magical realism /by Maryam Ebadi AsayeshNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2017.©20171 online resource (197 pages)1-4438-9565-2 Includes bibliographical references.Magical realism : a clash with patriarchy -- Magical realism as a clash with power -- The techniques of magical realist fictions as clashes with patriarchy and power."Although the term magic(al) realism appeared in 1925 in pictorial art in Germany, it became well-known with the boom of magical realist fiction in Latin America in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, it has become one of the popular modes of writing worldwide. Due to its oxymoronic and hybrid nature, it has caught the attention of critics. Some have called it a postcolonial form of writing because of its prominence in postcolonial countries, while others have called it a postmodern mode because of the time of its emergence and the techniques applied in these kinds of novels. This book discusses how magical realism was used in the works of three contemporary female writers, Indigo or, Mapping the Waters (1992) by the British Marina Warner, The House of the Spirits (1982) by the Latin American writer Isabel Allende, and Fatma: a novel of Arabia (2002) by the Saudi Arabian Raja Alem. It shows how, by applying magical realism, these writers empowered women. Using revisionary nostalgia, these works changed the process of history writing by the powerful, showed the presence of women, and gave voice to their unheard stories. Even the techniques applied in these novels presented the clash with patriarchy and power."--From amazon.com.Magic realism (Literature)Magic realism (Literature)809.915Asayesh Maryam Ebadi1643476MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820997903321Patriarchy and power in magical realism3988754UNINA