Magical feminism

Magical feminism is a subgenre of the magical realism literary genre. The term was first used in 1987 by Patricia Hart to describe the works of Isabel Allende.[1][2] More recent critical works on the subject feature such scholars as Ricci-James Adams or Kimberley Ann Wells. The term magical feminism refers to magical realism in a feminist discourse. Magical realism's basic assumption is the coexistence and effective merging of contradictory worldviews, the scientific and rational with the spiritual and magical. It grants equal ontological status to real figures and spirits, everyday occurrences and supernatural events. In its nature then is the subversion of monolithic cultural, social and political structures. It is a mode perfect for the writers who are in between, especially the postcolonial ones. The genre is magical realism in within the context of feminist discourse.

Seen from the post-colonial perspective, the magic and supernatural elements serve to disrupt reality giving voice to the Other, the oppressed groups. In the case of magical feminism the role of The Other is assumed by the marginalized women.[3] The strategies of defamiliarization, supernaturalization, grotesque, intertextuality, are used to undermine the fossilized schemata and oppressive mechanisms of patriarchal domination and to create a space in which an independent version of identity and history can be manifested.[4]

Magical feminism is popular among representatives of ethnic literature of the United States who operate in a hybrid culture and a hybrid language. They are for example Ana Castillo,[5] Maria Helena Viramontes,[6] Kathleen Alcalá,[7] but also female authors from other parts of the world such as British writer Jeanette Winterson or Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.

Kimberley Ann Wells claims that the most important feature of this genre is the presence of a female magic user, most commonly a witch or a shamaness, metaphorically representing the female protest against the male-dominated world order and an act of independence.[8]

Model texts

Movies and TV series

References

  1. ^ Blackwell, Frieda H. "Narrative Magic in the Fiction of Isabel Allende by Patricia Hart". Letras Femeninas. 17 (1/2): 140–143. JSTOR 23022035.
  2. ^ Volkova, Ekaterina "Female voices of magical realism", Retrieved on 07 October 2014.
  3. ^ Adams, Ricci-James. "Magical Feminism: The Paradoxical Pain in Fefu and her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes and The Eisteddfod by Lally Katz", Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine Anatomy and Poetics. Issue Six, Winter 2005. Retrieved on 06 October 2014
  4. ^ Islam, Jessica. Feminist space in magical realism: coexistence of magic and feminist tropes in Joanne Harris’ Chocolate and The Lollipop Shoes. Diss. BRAC University, 2019.
  5. ^ "Ana Castillo." Poetry Foundation. Accessed December 31, 2014. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ana-castillo.
  6. ^ "Casebook: Viramontes Under the Feet of Jesus About the Author." Casebook: Viramontes Under the Feet of Jesus. Accessed December 31, 2014. http://performance.millikin.edu/literaturecasebooks/viramontes/biography.htm.
  7. ^ "Kathleen Alcalá – UAPress". uapress.arizona.edu. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  8. ^ Wells, Kimberley Ann (2002). "Screaming, flying, and laughing: magical feminism's witches in contemporary film, television, and novels". Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 06 October 2014

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