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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• The Tin DrumRelated: Oskar’s stunted growth and glass-breaking scream are treated as part of ordinary life.

• Arundhati RoyRelated: The God of Small Things uses heightened, nonlinear storytelling, often discussed alongside this mode.

• Bruno SchulzRelated: His stories distort everyday life through metamorphosis, dream, and mythic imagery.

• Junot DíazRelated: Oscar Wao’s supernatural motifs meet documentary detail, though the novel also draws on science fiction and fantasy.

• Mo YanRelated: This mode helps describe how Mo Yan fuses village life with grotesque and fantastic episodes.

• Colson WhiteheadRelated: Whitehead’s literal railway and other speculative premises invite comparison with this mode, though his work spans genres.

• Emir KusturicaRelated: Kusturica blends improbable events with concrete Balkan settings.

• Mia CoutoRelated: This mode helps describe how his fiction places the marvelous alongside ordinary life, though it does not define all his work.

• The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleRelated: The novel’s uncanny episodes emerge within recognizable contemporary Tokyo rather than a separate fantasy world.

• Ben OkriRelated: Its blending of the marvellous and the everyday helps describe features of Okri’s fiction.

• Culture of South AmericaRelated: Writers from South America helped make this mode internationally influential.

• Moacyr ScliarRelated: Scliar’s fiction often uses fantastic premises to expose social realities and identity conflicts.

• Paulo CoelhoRelated: Coelho’s novels are sometimes discussed alongside magical realism, though their styles differ.

• Victor PelevinRelated: His matter-of-fact supernatural episodes create a related, though distinct, blend of the ordinary and impossible.