Magic Realism

Magic Realism is a literary genre that blends reality with magical elements. These stories are presented as if they are a part of everyday life, creating a reality where the extraordinary becomes the ordinary.

Magic Realism often explores themes like identity, history, and oppression, offering a mixture of fantastical and real. Nonlinear time and fractured narrative are used as tools to deliver the story along with mythological or magical motifs embedded in realistic settings.

Gabriel García Márquez, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, Salman Rushdie, and Toni Morrison are some of the names whose works share many core elements.

Nights at the Circus (1984) by Angela Carter is one of the most beautiful examples from this genre as a beautiful one that blends myth and realism through featuring Fevvers, a winged aerialist who may or may not be part swan. Through portraying her, the novel critiques gender roles, patriarchy, and sexism.

Sexing the Cherry (1989) by Jeanette Winterson is another great example to be delved into. Winterson's exploration of the fluidity of gender, and body is featured here with a reimagined fairytale telling the story of a Dog-Woman, with symbols like pineapples and bananas.

If you are interested, magic realism offers a new world blend with reality and magic while offering you a unique way to question everything. I have recently become a member of the family, and I wish that I had met Magic Realism earlier.