A Diffractive Story

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2386691
AutoresCathy Coulter (University of Alaska Anchorage)
Año2020
Volumen26
Número10
Páginas1213-1221
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800420939207
OpenAlexW3108550478
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas28

Magical realism is a literary genre that offers possibilities as a posthumanist narrative research project. Magical realism employs literary tools such as a nonlinear aspect of time, a subjective sense of causality, and a conflation of the magical and the ordinary. Such tools offer possibilities in narrative research to create ontological sense-events that exist within assemblages that entangle the reader, the narrator, the place, the writer, and the participants temporally, spatially, and sensually within a flattened event. This article explores the possibilities of magical realism, offering a fleeting assemblage and a subsequent diffractive analysis. It employs a magical realist narrative construction based on a collaborative partnership between an Alaska Native village and a public university in which language revitalization efforts are sought through various school-based projects, including a teacher-training program, creation of subsistence-based native language curriculum, and other projects

Aesthetics · Art · Conflation · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Literature · Magic realism · Narrative · Realism · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Music History and Culture · Philosophy