IN THE TRACKS OF AN OXYMORON: MAGICAL REALISM IN THE TRACKS OF AN OXYMORON: MAGICAL REALISM Nesrin Yavaş Nesrin Yavaş İzmir, 2021 Magical realism is often viewed as the literary product of Latin America. Starting with Franz Roth’s 1925 essay in which the term magical realism was coined, as well as Alejo Carpentier’s classic 1949 essay that introduced the concept of lo real maravilloso to the Americas, this volume ofers a wide range of critical perspectives and theoretical approaches to magical realism. Situating magical realism within the expanse of literary and cultural history, this book acknowledges its revitalizing force as a literary narrative mode. Combining interpretations of well-known literary texts from world literatures, with a specifc focus on U. S. ethnic literatures, Magical Realism: In the Tracks of an Oxymoron presents a global understanding of the broad infuence of magical realism. Amidst complex defnitional and conceptual questions, this book confrms magical realism’s strength to disrupt monologic political and cultural agendas. It is the propensity of magical realist texts to host a variety worlds and voices that makes it a subversive, transgressive, and transcultural narrative mode. Magic realism alters established structures of thought, reconstructs histories that have been silenced by political and social injustices; it makes the invisible visible while welcoming us into a journey across alternative historical, cultural, and political, territories. With this book I intend to host readers in worlds transformed and enhanced accordingly. ISBN: 978-625-409-188-9