Relativizing Reality: Transgressing Boundaries of the Ordinary
in British Magical Realism

k 2018

Relativizing Reality: Transgressing Boundaries of the Ordinary in British Magical Realism

KOTUCZ, Barbora

Basic information

Original name

Relativizing Reality: Transgressing Boundaries of the Ordinary in British Magical Realism

Authors

KOTUCZ, Barbora

Edition

14th ESSE Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

magický realizmus, prekračovanie hraníc, relativita

Keywords in English

magical realism, transgressing boundaries, relativity

Abstract

V originále

While realist fiction evaluates and comments on history and life as we know it, the realms of magical realism reach far beyond our eyesight. The genre of magical realism profoundly combines two seemingly oppositional realities – fictional reality filled with extraordinary events, magical occurrences and matters incomprehensible to the pure rationality of human thought, and the very reality of humankind intertwined with historical events supported by factual information. The controversiality of magical realism then lies at the intersection of the magical and the real, with no clear boundaries which would reassure the reader about the fictionality or factuality of the studied subject. Where the evaluation of believability in historical accuracy ends, magical realists begin. British magical realist narratives by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, or Jeanette Winterson invite readers to reevaluate the previously firmly established concepts such as time, space, and reality itself. By transgressing binary oppositions, myths and stereotypes shatter and the reader is left alone with the decision on what to believe, accept, or completely deny. This poster proposal alludes to the relativity of thought and attempts at portraying the greatest magical realist contrast not only verbally, but visually as well.

Links

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Acronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

KOTUCZ, Barbora. Relativizing Reality: Transgressing Boundaries of the Ordinary in British Magical Realism. In 14th ESSE Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. 2018.

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KOTUCZ, Barbora. Relativizing Reality: Transgressing Boundaries of the Ordinary in British Magical Realism. In \textit{14th ESSE Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic}. 2018.

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