Abstract
This study aims to uncover magical realism as historical discourse portrayed in the novel Beauty is A Wound by Eka Kurniawan. Descriptive qualitative method used in this study. The data were collected by reading, classifying and interpreting. The result is the novel Beauty is A Wound has five elements of magical realism as Faris stated, they are; irreducible elements, phenomenal world, the unsettling doubt, merging realms and disruptions of time, space and identity. In relation with magical realism, New Historicism also applied to unearth Indonesia historical discourse since the time of late Dutch colonization, the invasion of Japan, the Independence Era and the New Order Era. Then, the massacre of everyone who were labeled as communist. And the genocide of all the thugs or preman in order to make safer and better society. In this novel, the history of Indonesia was camouflaged and mixed with magical realism because every event that categorized as magical realism led to the past events which related to the history of Indonesia.
 Keywords: historical discourse, magical realism, new historicism
Highlights
Some will say history is series of events which exactly happened in the past
A little bit different with my study which aims to uncover magical realism as historical discourse portrayed in the novel Beauty is A Wound by Eka Kurniawan
The researcher used Faris’s magical realism elements in order to uncover magical realism within the novel and applied New Historicism by Stephen Greenblatt to reveal and analyze the historical discourses found in the novel
Summary
Some will say history is his story which by means it’s created or constructed by those whose power to written them down. It can be concluded not all the stories mankind ever read or heard are not totally true as a wholeness, some parts will be added or eliminated depends on the “power” wishes. Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote in 1957, ‘history that is not controversial is dead history’. While some of this controversy comes from the pronouncements of historians as public intellectuals addressing the present day, much of it comes from them arguing with each other.
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