Magic realism once referred to the literary style of a loosely connected group of Latin American authors who penned works some 60 years ago, but in t… - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Magic realism once referred to the literary style of a loosely connected group of Latin American authors who penned works some 60 years ago, but in the English-speaking world, the term has become synonymous with Latin American writing in general. Picture every work by a British writer being called “Austenesque” today, and you get an idea of this phenomenon.