Magical Realism
Articles
- A Politics of the Dreamtime: Destructive and Regenerative Rainbows in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
Focusing on Wright’s representation of the land, the river and the cyclone, the essay attempts to demonstrate ‘how playfully, flexibly and experimentally Wright moblilises a…
1 November 2008 - Review of Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground, by Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander’s ambitious project, Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground, seeks to clear up the confusion surrounding the literary term ‘magical realism’, an…
1 June 2009 - Connecting Guatemala, Australia and the World: Violence in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness and Mark McKenna’s Looking for Blackfellas’ Point
This article uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to look past the enormous contextual differences between the politically-motivated mass murders and consequent genocide of the Maya in Guatemala…
29 October 2020