Childrens Literature and the Theory of Magical Realism in Fiction Analysis

Esma  Dumanlı Kadızade; Mehmet Ali  Öksüz

doi:10.37609/akya.4191

Yazarlar

Esma Dumanlı Kadızade

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6882-6234

Mehmet Ali Öksüz

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37609/akya.4191.c11632

Özet

The term magical realism was first used by Novalis in the 18th century, and it took its place in the world of art and literature when Franz Roh defined a painting technique as magical realism in 1925. In literary criticism, magical realism is considered a genre in which the real and the irrelevant are presented together, and the irrelevant is seen as ordinary. In general, magical events that point to a problem are narrated by a secretive narrator with a childlike naivety. The boundaries between the real and the irrelevant become blurred. The reader is uncertain about whether what is happening is real or not. Taking a stance against the rational worldview of the West, magical realism suggests that there will be alternative ways to make sense of the world, such as magic. The heroes of the genre are people outside the authoritarian discourse, who are called the other, and are off-center. Magical realism, which brings together different narrative techniques, genres and cultural elements, exhibits hybrid characteristics. The lack of an examination theory on magical realist fiction was determined in the light of studies conducted in our country and around the world, and in order to contribute to the field, the theory was structured with the content analysis method, and the codes “1-Real world, 2-Existence of the irrelevant in the real world, 3-Violation of real and irrelevant boundaries, 4-Ordinariness of the unreal, 5-Indecision, 6-Narrator attitude, 7-Persons, 9-Space, 10-Postmodern elements and 11-Deep structure” were determined. It was envisaged that the determined codes could be applied to different works in both adult and children's and young adult literature, and that they would especially pioneer research on magical realism in children's literature.

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