{"id":430,"date":"2010-02-07T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4250189195498372891.post-6207462937198435160"},"modified":"2010-02-07T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T00:52:46","slug":"thoughts-about-magic-realism-and-the-semester-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/2010\/02\/07\/thoughts-about-magic-realism-and-the-semester-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about Magic Realism and the semester so far~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think most of us have a prior knowledge of magic realism and its founders, but it&#8217;s nice to have a class which focuses on this literary technique in such detail. This course so far has helped me to understand the many ways in which magic realism can be implemented into a story. I feel that the most important thing that I have learnt so far is that magic realism is not indented to define Latin America as a place where the people are childlike and believe in magic, but rather a place that itself is magical, a place where &#8220;lo real maravilloso&#8221; es lo real. In these works the native and popular beliefs are presented as true knowledge rather than as foreign, unbelievable folklore. <\/p>\n<p>I believe that these writers attempt to bring the past back to life to show the reader that the past is a vital part of human beings. If were want to understand a people, we need to understand their history. <\/p>\n<p>For me this belief in the unbelievable, is just another way of looking at the world that surrounds you. Moreover, I myself had to attempt objectivity when reading these texts. I had to accept the marvelous within the story as reality, otherwise I would not be capable of experiencing the magical. Magical realism is just a different approach to looking at things. <\/p>\n<p>Still, I am aware that since I am born of Haitian decent or Aztec decent, that I will never be able to fully understand or experience this approach. I admire it, but it is not my reality. <\/p>\n<p>I think that magic realism is a wonderful thing, sometimes very confusing, but non the less beautiful. However, I do see some danger of it being abused. I have learnt in other courses that some see it as a hindrance to Latin America rather than I help. If people do not understand its purpose, it can work against the people and make them appear to be naive and uneducated. <\/p>\n<p>So to conclude, I think this course is very important. Considering the fact that magic realism is such a huge part of Latin America and its literature, and many of us are Spanish majors or minors, it is vital to have a solid understanding of magic realism and its purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Hope everyone had a good weekend! One more week guys!!!! :O)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4250189195498372891-6207462937198435160?l=span365mariajoyce.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think most of us have a prior knowledge of magic realism and its founders, but it&#8217;s nice to have a class which focuses on this literary technique in such detail. This course so far has helped me to understand the many ways in which magic realism can &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}