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The 83 pages that link to Magical realism, each with the reason it gives.

• SurrealismCompared with: Unlike Surrealism's rupture of ordinary reality, magic realism often presents the marvelous as routine.

• Postcolonial literatureRelated: Its forms can challenge colonial definitions of rationality and legitimate knowledge.

• Science fictionCompared with: Its unexplained marvels differ from science fiction's usual interest in speculative causes and systems.

• Literary realismCompared with: Its matter-of-fact supernatural elements depart from realism’s usual reliance on plausible events.

• MetafictionCompared with: Its departures from realism need not draw attention to fiction’s construction.

• Postmodern literatureCompared with: It overlaps with postmodern fiction but does not require metafiction or skepticism about grand explanations.

• Southern GothicCompared with: Its matter-of-fact supernatural differs from Southern Gothic’s emphasis on regional decay and grotesquerie.

• Toni MorrisonCompared with: Supernatural presences appear in her fiction, but her work cannot be reduced to this label.

• Comparative literatureRelated: Its international circulation invites comparison while exposing different regional histories and uses.

• Jorge Luis BorgesRelated: Borges is often grouped with the movement, though his work differs from its defining style.

• Latin American BoomRelated: It became closely associated with the Boom, especially through García Márquez’s fiction.

• Gabriel García MárquezRelated: His fiction became one of the mode's most influential international examples.

• Latin American literatureRelated: Latin American writers made this mode widely known, though it does not define the whole tradition.

• Salman RushdieRelated: Rushdie uses the fantastic to recast political and family histories as lived realities.

• Science fiction filmCompared with: Its unexplained wonders differ from the genre’s frequent attention to speculative systems and consequences.

• FantasyCompared with: Unlike many fantasy works, magical realism often leaves supernatural events embedded in everyday life.

• Fantasy literatureCompared with: It usually retains a recognizable real world rather than building a separate fantasy realm.

• Nikolai GogolCompared with: Gogol’s uncanny events invite comparison, though his work predates the modern term.

• Weird fictionCompared with: Its matter-of-fact supernatural contrasts with the destabilizing uncertainty typical of weird fiction.

• Caribbean literatureRelated: Some Caribbean writers use it to unsettle colonial claims about whose realities count.

• One Hundred Years of SolitudeNarrower topic: The novel’s marvels enter everyday life without disrupting its narrative tone.

• New ObjectivityBroader topic: It names the cooler, more enigmatic tendency associated with several New Objectivity painters.

• Supernatural fictionCompared with: Magical realism often treats the marvelous as routine rather than as a breach of nature.

• The House of the SpiritsRelated: Clairvoyance and spirits enter the Truebas’ everyday lives without disrupting the novel’s realism.

• Speculative fictionCompared with: Its matter-of-fact treatment of the marvelous complicates genre boundaries.

• Dream narrativeCompared with: Magic realism normalizes marvels in a shared world; dream narratives often make reality itself unstable.

• Fantastic literatureCompared with: Unlike the fantastic's uncertainty, magical realism commonly treats the marvelous as accepted reality.

• Mexican literatureCompared with: It is often associated with Latin American fiction, but does not define the range of Mexican writing.

• Surreal humorCompared with: Magical realism treats extraordinary events as ordinary but does not necessarily frame them as jokes.

• Arabic novelRelated: Some Arabic novels use its strategies to unsettle realist accounts of history and society.

• Carlos FuentesCompared with: Fuentes is often grouped with Boom writers, but his work is less defined by magical realism than García Márquez’s.

• Dream imageryCompared with: Unlike dream imagery’s disruptions, magic realism often presents the extraordinary as ordinary.

• Heinrich BöllCompared with: Böll’s socially grounded fiction generally differs from the defining blend of reality and the marvelous.

• Mikhail BulgakovCompared with: The Master and Margarita’s fantastic events invite comparison with, but do not simply define, this mode.

• Tony KushnerRelated: The angels and visions in Kushner’s drama make supernatural events coexist with recognizable political reality.

• Julio CortázarCompared with: Cortázar is often grouped with Latin American Boom writers, but his fantastic fiction follows different conventions.

• Latin American identityRelated: Its association with Latin American writing has shaped global expectations of regional culture.

• Sam ShepardRelated: Some Shepard plays mix recognizable domestic life with uncanny events and unstable perception.

• The AlephRelated: The cellar’s impossible point is narrated amid recognizable details of everyday Buenos Aires.

• The Satanic VersesNarrower topic: The novel folds miraculous transformations and visions into a recognizably modern setting.

• Apichatpong WeerasethakulRelated: This label helps describe how spirits enter everyday settings without fanfare.

• Isaac Bashevis SingerRelated: Singer’s stories often let spirits and marvels enter everyday settings without abandoning social detail.

• Rosario CastellanosCompared with: Her Chiapas novels are more directly organized around social conflict than magical realism's characteristic effects.

• Alice MunroCompared with: Munro’s unusual turns remain grounded in plausible memory, desire, and social circumstance.

• Clarice LispectorCompared with: Her strangeness usually emerges from perception and language, not a sustained magical world.

• Dirty realismCompared with: Its acceptance of the marvelous departs from dirty realism's mundane world.

• Harry MulischCompared with: His mythic and supernatural elements invite comparison, though his novels often foreground intellectual design.

• Haruki MurakamiRelated: His fiction often places uncanny events in contemporary settings without fully explaining them.

• Jesmyn WardCompared with: Ward's ghosts invite comparison, but her novels are not generally classified as magical realism.

• Metaphysical paintingCompared with: Both make the familiar strange, but metaphysical painting relies on enigmatic visual arrangements rather than magical events.