12. Introduction, Beginning and Tradition of Magical Realism..جادوئی حقیقت نگاری : تعارف ،آغاز اور تاریخی پس منظر

Author(s) : Fazal Kabeer/ Dr. Suleman Khatak / Masroor Hussain.. فضل کبیر/ ڈاکٹر سلیمان خٹک / مسرور حسین

Abstract:

After First and Second World War, new impulses and situations arose in literature. In them, every impulse led to some naive writing–style and techniques. For instance, at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th Century, Modernism impulse commenced, proclaiming to change prevalent genre, writing style and ideology. From womb of Modernism, arose stream of consciousness technique, abstract and absurd technique etc. After modernism, at start of 20th century, Postmodernism (theory or condition) appeared. Postmodernism left its bosom broad to give it some definition, making it a bit vast. So like modernism, some techniques also merged from postmodernism, wherein, irony, playfulness, black humor, faction, participation, metafiction, historiographic metafiction, pastiche, paranoia, intertextuality, temporal distortion, maximalism and magical realism are worthy to mention. Putting aside all the aforementioned techniques, this article comprises of introduction to Magical Realism, historical background and its commencement. It has completely overviewed those historical events like first and second world wars, wrecked condition of Germany, Latin American’s dark time; it has included technique of magical realism.