Date of Award:

5-2012

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Arts (MA)

Department:

English

Committee Chair(s)

Charles Waugh

Committee

Charles Waugh

Committee

Michael Sowder

Committee

Brock Dethier

Abstract

Magical realism comes from Franz Roh, a german art historian and critic, who first used the term to describe the Post-Expressionism movement in visual art. His seminal writings and definitions on Post-Expressionism, then known as magical realism, were translated into Spanish and made available to Latin America in the mid twentieth century. Authors like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez adopted Roh's writings and re-appropriated magical realism into literary art, and from there the new genre proliferated through the Latin American Boom and magical realism in literary fiction reached global recognition, inspiring authors across the world to take it up and continue the tradition into the present.

The City Proper: After a borough fire decimates the city of St. Joan's, local artist Elias Bernaise paints impossibly convincing images over the blackened ruins and draws the denizens back to the site of the fire.

Eat She Said: A thin and worrisome Nantucket woman, damaged by her upbringing in a work home with her emaciated mother, struggles to associate with food and eventually eats herself.

June Eleventh on Vinegar Hill: A crippled, elderly man searches for answers to remedy his wife's medical condition all across town on the day of an annual Civil War reenactment festival.

Portable Hole: A boy struggles to understand his grandfather, a corporate scientist who created a portable hole with his colleague and eventually disappeared inside of it with him.

Prosthesis: A young boy, whose mother is away on a dating competition television show, is babysat by his elderly, German neighbor, a formerly contracted designer and engineer of prosthetic arms.

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