Tag: magical realism
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Magical Realism in Books and Film
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on April 4, 2016. Image above created by Stefano Vitale for Broadway musical production of Like Water for Chocolate. This is the fifth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the previous posts, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “When you…
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What Magical Realism Is to Me
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Originally published on September 29, 2015. This is fourth in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can’t hold on…
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Elements of Magical Realism
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on September 29, 2015. This is the third in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read the first two, I recommend starting with Part 1: What Is Magical Realism? “I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn’t an unformed and…
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What Magical Realism ISN’T
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on August 4, 2015 This is second in a five-part series on Magical Realism. If you haven’t read Part 1: What Is Magical Realism?, I’d recommend starting there. “Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often…
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What Is Magical Realism
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Originally published by Michelle Witte on July 31, 2015 “It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise . . . to such an extreme that no-one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. It was an intricate stew of truths…