"Magic realism once referred to the literary style of a loosely connected group of Latin American authors who penned works some 60 years ago, but in the English-speaking world, the term has become synonymous with Latin American writing in general. Picture every work by a British writer being called “Austenesque” today, and you get an idea of this phenomenon...Categories should not act as straitjackets, and yet the magic realism label has sometimes strangled rather than liberated Latin American literature."
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia "Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism" essay (Dec. 8, 2022)
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