{"product_id":"cultural-realism-reconsidering-magical-realism-in-the-works-of-contemporary-american-women-writers-9783631877548","title":"Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Antje Kley | Nasrin Babakhani\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English as a Second Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all the selected novels are female-centric in that the main characters are women. The authors, also women, are from three diverse American ethnic groups from both the North and South. Through a close reading of several novels, Babakhani shows how the reinvention of cultural traditions serves these women writers as a political, decolonial, and feminist tool. Babakhani situates her readings in a critique of the concepts of realism and magical realism. Because magical realism sets realism against magic and implies binary oppositions, Babakhani proposes \"cultural realism\" as a revisionary concept that takes the cultural importance of rituals and beliefs seriously, without simply dismissing them as superstition. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46444157993111,"sku":"9783631877548","price":5553.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783631877548.webp?v=1769129219","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cultural-realism-reconsidering-magical-realism-in-the-works-of-contemporary-american-women-writers-9783631877548","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}