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Magic Realism in Morrison’s Paradise
CHEN Yue-ting
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.08.004
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics Dongfang College, Haining, Zhejiang, China
“We Are the Furrow of His Brow” is the graffiti altered from “Beware of the Furrow of His Brow” or “The Furrow of His Brow” on the hood of an oven in a separated black town Ruby. Young people of Ruby change the words because they feel regretted contriving to shoot an assumed guilty woman living in the nearby convent. However, whether the woman Consolata and the other four women at the convent are dead remains mysterious. There are some descriptions of magics in Paradise in which the most magical abilities are Connie’s “bat vision” and “stepping in”. This paper demonstrates the ways that Morrison manifests magic realism in Paradise including multiple narrative timelines, ambiguous writing, reconstituted marginal figures and naturally blended reality. Primarily in thefour ways Morrison presents how she utilizes magic realism genre to depict the changeable world penetrating through the appearance.
Magic realism, Toni Morrison, Paradise
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