Magical Realism as Social Protest in Gabriel García Márquez’s Of Love and Other Demons
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This article is an effort to explore the relevance of the technique of magical realism as well as the postcolonial reality to the assertive mode of social protest in the Gabriel García Márquez’s novella Of Love and Other Demons [Del amor y otros demonios, 1994/1996]. Hypothesizing that the author has been successful at employing the technique of magic(al) realism as a vehicle of social protest in order to register his observations regarding the prevalent socio-political situation, the research investigates slavery as a major theme of the text in question. While the study highlights the significance of fiction as a powerful means to unveil and thus comment upon the demoniac backdrop in which the same has been written, it also takes on various postcolonial themes in the novella, for example, language, displacement, identity, race,exploitation, gender, hybridity, etc.
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This article is an effort to explore the relevance of the technique of magical realism as well as the postcolonial reality to the assertive mode of social protest in the Gabriel García Márquez’s novella Of Love and Other Demons [Del amor y otros demonios, 1994/1996]. Hypothesizing that the author has been successful at employing the technique of magic(al) realism as a vehicle of social protest in order to register his observations regarding the prevalent socio-political situation, the research investigates slavery as a major theme of the text in question. While the study highlights the significance of fiction as a powerful means to unveil and thus comment upon the demoniac backdrop in which the same has been written, it also takes on various postcolonial themes in the novella, for example, language, displacement, identity, race,exploitation, gender, hybridity, etc.
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