
art by Kevin Lapeña
The other day, a young Pinay writer emailed, to ask some questions about magical realism, how I define it, which communities of writers write it, what are some books falling under this category. While the question kind of came out of nowhere, coincidentally, I’d been thinking about issues tangential to or intersecting with magical realism.
I’ve been thinking that magical realism is that thing you call ethnic literature when you don’t know what to do with their “folk” beliefs still existing and manifesting themselves in the modern day. You don’t know why those old beliefs still exist, and why the mythical and spiritual are so incorporated or fused into their everyday modern lives.
Continue reading ‘Magical Realism – Mythopoetry – Speculative Fiction’
RSS - Posts
Recent Comments