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Magical Realism: A Narrative of Celebration or Disillusionment? South…
Magical Realism: A Narrative of Celebration or Disillusionment? South African Literature in the Transition Period
magical realism
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arises out of particular societies postcolonial, unevenly developed place where old and new, modern and ancient, the scientific and the magical views of the world co-exist
proves well-suited for the task confronted by post-apartheid fiction, namely the one of reshaping a present that is impregnated with remnants of a violent past while at the same time seeking to counteract the consequences of blossoming capitalist development
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realism
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the minimisation strengthened realism's status in apartheid era as a mode of writing most suitable to ensure the widespread assent of the South African black masses
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Ndebele
argues for new mode of fiction that would come closer to the orality of black communities, echoing the storytelling traditions of rural life
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narrative mode
contributed to reclaiming of the freedom of the spirit equally manifests itself in its capacity to activate readers, re-situating them as interrogators rather than recipients of delivered truths