ABSTRACT
This book has dispelled the idea that the terms ‘magic realism’, ‘magical realism’ and ‘marvellous realism’ should be dismissed simply because their histories and application have been complicated. What the future of the terms will be is a matter of speculation except that at some time or other most literary terms have undergone changes of meaning, if they have not been forgotten altogether. As magical realism has been so very fashionable during the last few decades of the twentieth century, its survival as a recognized and popular narrative mode of writing into the twenty-first century is somewhat under threat as fashions change.
