Abstract
Since its emergence from Latin America, magical realism has been repeatedly authenticated in terms of postcolonial projects of cultural renewal. However, Takolander argues that the staged incongruity of the real and magical is a narrative strategy that implicitly mobilizes irony and its hermeneutic frisson in ways intrinsic to the postcolonial politics associated with most magical realist literature. Paying respect to First Nations writers, and to the transnational nature of magical realist fiction, the essay makes use of Gerald Vizenor’s theory of survivance—understood as a description of the ironic aesthetic of magical realism—as a tool for reading three magical realist novels by the Australian Aboriginal (Waanyi) writer Alexis Wright, Plains of Promise (1997), Carpentaria (2006), and The Swan Book (2013).
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