Abstract
This chapter seeks out magical realist elements in the words (speech, voice-over, dialogues) and images (camera shots) of post-9/11 cinematic narratives (adaptations and original screenplays) which attempt to recover the ineffable of traumatic memories. Analyses highlight the gravitational shift in magical realist representations of trauma after 9/11 from the textual to the visual, both in print and on screen, by corroborating such concepts as vicarious traumatization, mediatized trauma, and traumatic imagination, and by using as case studies a few representative twenty-first-century magical realist films. The theoretical framework aligns with previous studies on testimonial narratives, particularly the ones documenting historical violence, which explore the magical realism/traumatic memory nexus by relying on interdisciplinary approaches involving narrative theory, cultural studies, historiography, Holocaust studies, trauma theory, and clinical therapy.
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