Abstract
Description in narrative is often associated with realist style and, for that reason, it has been reviled for its tautological (dys)function. Critical work on magical realism in the past three decades has foregrounded the mode’s political importance. This essay offers a reading of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Erendira” story (1972) to open an extended discussion of the function and uses of description in literary analysis. Blanco investigates how description serves the narration, and how its challenges in magical realism compare to those of description in realism. Conversing with recent scholarship that is part of the “descriptive turn,” Blanco asks what role description has played in scholarship on magical realism and what effect it has had on our political and ideological perceptions of the mode.
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