Magical realism as feminist discourse: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Shahrnush Parsipur's Touba and the Meaning of Night

Magical realist fiction is considered a subversive mode in its commingling of the binary opposition (Reason/Imagination) with none at the upper hand. Because of its transgressive spirit, from the mid-twentieth century onwards many postcolonial, cross-cultural, and feminist writers have found magical...

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Main Authors: Farzad Kolahjooei, Maryam Beyad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI) 2011-12-01
Series:Teaching English Language
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Online Access:http://www.teljournal.org/article_66094_9a39e76b6d7b1950caa746d8364d89f4.pdf