Anglophone World Literature and Glocal Memories: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Neumann, Birgit

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32598-5_12

New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel 2019

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32598-5_12

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Anglophone World Literature and Glocal Memories: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Birgit Neumann

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An Ever-Expanding World Literary Genre: Defining Magic Realism on Wikipedia

Figlerowicz

Mertehikian

2023

Journal of Cultural Analytics

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Magic realism is a disputed genre in world literature scholarship today. While many Latin American critics have advocated for its historical and geographical significance, others see it as an inherently postcolonial aesthetic formation, a worldwide literary trend, and even a global commodity. Indeed, since its emergence in the first half of the 20th century, magic realism has remained an attractive and active category, as new artworks are classified as such worldwide. To address these tensions, this essay engages with definitions, general information, and lists of authors and literary works classified as magic realists on Wikipedia. To do so, we compile a thorough database of all writers mentioned in Wikipedia’s entries for magic realism in fifty-six different languages. We visualize this data and close-read Wikipedia entries to understand better which writers are most often identified as magic realists, to which literary and linguistic traditions they belong, and how definitions of magic realism in different languages interact. We trace how the narrow and broad definitions of magic realism tend to both compete and overlap on Wikipedia. We argue that magic realism on Wikipedia can be better understood as a glocal phenomenon. In this sense, we reflect on what the worldliness of magic realism means in a non-academic context and ask how the broad circulation of magic realism can inform our understanding of world literature.

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An Ever-Expanding World Literary Genre: Defining Magic Realism on Wikipedia

Figlerowicz

Mertehikian

2023

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Anglophone World Literature and Glocal Memories: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

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An Ever-Expanding World Literary Genre: Defining Magic Realism on Wikipedia

An Ever-Expanding World Literary Genre: Defining Magic Realism on Wikipedia

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