Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ23625

Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Novel Midnight's Children

Authors(1) :-Shivani Viswakarma

Magic Realism is an amalgamation of Realism and magic (Fantasy) through which the plot develops. Anything which cannot happen in real life is fantasy. Magic realism is a literary genre of a novel set in a normal modern world with a metaphysical description of human relationships and society. There would be fantastical things that are treated as realistically as possible. It is defined by contradiction: On one hand, it draws the realistic tradition of literature in which the entire world is depicted as it is with all its everyday problems and on the other hand it fills the realistic world with fantasy and extraordinary things of supernatural. Magical realism, as a movement, first appeared in Europe in 1920 and later in America in the 1940s. The Latin American writers likes Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende are important magic realists who blend magic and reality in their work to express the serious thought. They mainly blend colonial literary elements and myth. Seeing the attempt of them, many modern writers start to undertake this genre of novel to discuss the serious political and social matters in their works. In this way, this genre became popular in postmodern period.

Authors and Affiliations

Shivani Viswakarma
Research Scholar, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology, and Science, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

Cultural identity, magic realism, surrealism, myth, Western, African

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 6 | Issue 1 | January-February 2023
Date of Publication : 2023-01-15
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 97-101
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ23625
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Shivani Viswakarma, "Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Novel Midnight's Children ", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp.97-101, January-February.2023
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