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  • Chapter 5 - Space, Time and Magical Realism

  • from Part I - Origins
  • 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 80-98

  • Summary

    Even though for heuristic purposes we may separate space and time as distinctive categories for analysis, their implications can never be fully worked out individually, but only in the manner by which they are integrated into the entire magical realist textual apparatus of which they are a part. Thus, even though the focus of this essay will be predominantly on questions of space–time, I shall be following the constitution of space–time in direct relation to other aspects and dimensions of magical realist textuality while simultaneously returning to this category as the primary nexus of interpretation. While a range of texts will be referenced for this exercise, the significance of different modalities and configurations of space–time for grasping the relationship between indexicality, iconicity and a putative real world will be focused on, primarily using Robert Kroetsch’s What the Crow Said and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road, two texts that illustrate the magical realist juxtaposition of different ontologies and the leakages that take place between such domains.