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  • Chapter 16 - Scheherazade in the Diaspora

  • from Part III - Application
  • Edited by Christopher Warnes, University of Cambridge, Kim Anderson Sasser, Wheaton College, Illinois
  • Book:
    Magical Realism and Literature
    Published online:
    22 October 2020
    Print publication:
    12 November 2020, pp 282-299

  • Summary

    Building on the extensive literature related to postcolonialism and magical realism, this chapter examines how diaspora writing and magical realism are related. It focuses on alienation, the uncanny and mobility, among other elements, demonstrating that these are elements that unite and are common to both modes of writing. It argues that the case of Arab diaspora writing is particularly and uniquely suited to exploring how these modes are related. A close examination of two novels, The Night Counter by Alia Yunis and The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine, illustrates how various forms of place, a central and key dimension of diaspora fiction, are refashioned and complicated through these novels’ engagement with and use of magical realism.