Poetcrit

Current Volume: 37 (2024 )

ISSN: 0970-2830

Periodicity: Half-Yearly

Month(s) of Publication: January & July

Subject: Language & Literature

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET

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Magical Feminism: A Step Further towards Women Upliftment with Gabriel Garcia Marquez

By : Shreya Karmakar

Page No: 21-27

Abstract
This paper aims at investigating the contribution of magical realism as a narrative mode to the thematic critical content of women upliftment or magical feminism as an influential literary domain. Women upliftment is a thematic critical theory in the sense that it tackles themes and ideas more than techniques and structure. In comparison to formalism, structuralism and post-structuralism, feminism proves to be more thematically oriented. The paper works on extending the domain of the feminist theory to embrace magical realism as a narrative mode that refamiliarises its thematic definition of magical feminism. The paper is based on proposing that between magical realism and feminism, there is a relationship that springs from the similarity between them, in addition to the significance attributed to feminism when enhanced by magical realism as a mode of narration. This brings into concern the ‘duality’ and ‘defocalization’ as leading terms that knot both magical realism and feminism to postmodernism as a basic context of reference. Bringing the theme of accepting the ‘other’ into the scene, literary references are made from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novels .The novels of Marquez explain and show how magical realism, through the theme of avenging abuse, has enhanced the feminist reading that is based here on naturalizing woman contributing to the domain of magical feminism.

 

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Shreya Karmakar: 
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET.2024.37.02.3

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