Magical Realism Definitions
Short Stories
Gods of Jade and Shadow
200
The figures in this image worked to fight the United Fruit Company in response to this event, which was written about in GGM, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
What is the Banana Massacre?
200
The short story, “Starver,” draws from this rich setting in Great Britain.
What is the Fen?
200
Xibalba as ______ levels of hell and is ruled by _______ gods.
What is nine and twelve?
300
“In magical realist texts, ________ serves the purpose of political and cultural disruption: magic is often given as a cultural corrective, requiring readers to scrutinize accepted realistic conventions of causality, materiality, and motivation” (Zamora and Feris).
What is ontological disruption?
300
In “Kushtuka,” Hank Ferryman doesn’t call the narrator by her name, Tapeesa, but a nickname.
What is Tappy?
300
What insult does the Xtabay use to describe Casiopea that is often associated with the indigenous?
What is savage?
400
Santeria, Espiritismo, and Spiritism are all examples of spiritual or religious_______________.
What is syncretism?
400
These two stories de-center cisgender, heteronormative relationships.
What is "A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door" and "Love Machine"?
400
Casiopea’s name draws on the Cassiopeia of Greek mythology, who was known as the _______of Aethiopia.
What is Queen?
500
Critics like Isabela Penier have argued that magical realism and its connection to post-modernism has meant that the genre has functioned as a voice for the _________________.
What is the oppressed?
500
In "Kushtuka," the theme of colonial theft and appropriate appears via which image/symbol?
What is the spear?
500
____________is roughly translated as 'place of fright.'
What is Xibalba?
600
In magical realism, the supernatural becomes an every day, organic occurrence that is “________________”.
What is normative and normalizing?
600
The following quotes from "The Summer People" point to one of its central themes_____________.
"You need to know where you are and what you owe. Unless you can balance that out, here is where y'all stay." / "They don't like it when you thank them. It's poison to them."
What is debt?
600
What is the type of music and culture Casiopea encounters in the city?
What is Jazz?