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Quotes from Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism" essay — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

born 1981 Canada

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In my experience, the term magic realism is often overused and stereotypical, spoken without much thought.

Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism" essay (2022)

Categories should not act as straitjackets, and yet the magic realism label has sometimes strangled rather than liberated Latin American literature.

Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism" essay (2022)

But does it matter what we call Latin American literature? Isn’t a rose by any other name just as sweet? In my experience, it matters because categories create expectations.

Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism" essay (2022)

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.

Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism" essay (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Silvia Moreno-Garcia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.