MAGICAL REALISM IN ANGELA CARTER, ISABEL ALLENDE, AND BUKET UZUNER AS A MEANS OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL PROTEST

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2023-9-25

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Reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well. In addition, multiple ways of perceiving and constructing the world must be acknowledged as real. Magical realist narratives provide the reader with a perception of the world where there is no single dimension to reality. Bearing these in mind, this study aims at analyzing the application of magical realism in some of the works of three twentieth century authors Angela Carter, Isabel Allende, and Buket Uzuner. The focal point of this study is to determine why the literary mode of magical realism is an effective means of protest for treating social, political, and cultural issues as far as these writers are concerned. They resort to magical realism for several reasons. To begin with, they all find the purely realist literature unsatisfactory for expressing their world views. Secondly, knowing that magical realism is characterized as a transgressive mechanism that parodies the Authority, the Establishment, and the Law, they use this mode as a form of social protest in their works. Thirdly, their use of magical realism may be regarded as a symbol of feminine passivity. Being female authors, their magical realist narratives inherently document the struggle of women against the oppression of a patriarchal society in an effort to develop their own personhood. The application of this narrative mode is made clearer with the detailed analyses of their works which are respectively Nights at the Circus (1984), Island Beneath the Sea (2010), and The Adventures of Misfit Defne Kaman-The Water Book (2012).

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Protest, magical, realism, transgressive, struggle.

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M. ATALIK, “MAGICAL REALISM IN ANGELA CARTER, ISABEL ALLENDE, AND BUKET UZUNER AS A MEANS OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL PROTEST,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.