Magical Realism as Narrative Strategy in the Recovery of Historical Traumata
(2014) Interférences littéraires — n° 14, p. 1-178 (2014)
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- The present collection of essays treats magical realism as a narrative strategy that has become a particularly viable medium for representing historical traumata. Each essay contributes to the overall concept of magical realism as a poetics and writing mode transgressing geo-cultural, literary, and even its own historical boundaries. The writers focus their attention on historical traumata, such as the consequences of both World Wars, but also the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; the transgenerational trauma of the descendants of Holocaust survivors; the trauma of displacement of the Turkish peasantry; and even a 19th-century work representing a two-hundred-year-old Scottish uprising, all of which have found expression through magical-realist writing techniques. Where factual representation of a violent reality fails because of the crisis of meaning, magical imagery takes over.
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Roland, H., & Arva, E. (2014). Magical Realism as Narrative Strategy in the Recovery of Historical Traumata. Interférences littéraires, 14, 1-178. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/40700 (Original work published 2014)