%0 Book
%A Nasrin Babakhani
%D 2022
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2366-5068
%@ 9783631880876
%T Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers
%R 10.3726/b19792
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1251759
%X This 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.
%G English