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Kantor provides a comprehensive overview of magical realism in South Asia. Beginning with antecedents in non-realist literature of the early twentieth century, this chapter examines accounts that explain the sudden and apparent dominance of magical realism in literatures of South Asia and its diaspora after the 1981 publication of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. It also considers explanations of Rushdie himself as a magical realist and South Asian writer par-excellence. Finally, it traces the effects of Rushdie’s magical realism on the field of South Asian Anglophone letters, the over-identification of this area and era with that particular literary mode, and the tentative reemergence of magical realism after a period of oversaturation and retrenchment. Throughout, Kantor shows how these tendencies overflow both national and postcolonial explanatory frameworks. |
