.... DOXA AT LARGE Hijacked by Realism Beatriz Jaguaribe In an ordinary afternoon, numerous mourners attend the funeral of a well-known upper-middle-class man. The funeral takes place in the cemetery São João Baptista, located...

... to suppress the simple yet very significant literary fact that The Satanic Verses is not only a 'novel' and therefore a work of 'fiction', but also a very specific kind of modern fiction: a book in the genre of 'magic realism'. The fact that Rushdie practises magic realism rather than some other...

... set of issues concerning truth and beauty, the darkness of the soul, and the terrible rift between good and evil in the human spirit. The Satanic Verses ostensibly belongs to a genre which originated in Latin America called magic realism. There it is a genre of resistance and active...

... and Their Perception in Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993 . Apter , Emily . “Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Eliss Rhais.” In After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements, ed. Gyan Prakash. Princeton: Princeton...

... to note the process of subliminal identification and subjective conformation it entails. Literature: Magical Realism and Animist Realism Situating individual cultural practices within the continuum of animist production...

.../library/document/speech-on-independence-day ( accessed June 24, 2015 ). Agamben Giorgio . 2005 . State of Exception . Translated by Attell Kevin . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Alves Rubem . 1973 . “ Christian Realism: Ideology of the Establishment...

... to a kind of blind test (as in that other ritual of wine-tasting), where established or fashionable labels like “realism” or 416 “photorealism” count for little. Looking therefore consists of looking at visible Public Culture figures blind, which is also what gives Danqing’s figures...

... or understanding of the reality Chinese people live in. In the past three years, there’s been a regression (daotui) in Chinese films. None of them have attained, let alone surpassed, the level of realism of In the Wild Mountains (Ye Shan) or Old Well (Lao...

... unresolvability. Portraying Henry Henry: Portrait ofa Serial Killer situates itself at the intersection of two filmic modes: the commercial horror genre and the “psycho-realism” of independent cinemaa3Vu‘ariety defined the film’s double status...

... realism" (in Michael Schudson's admirable phrase) and "socialist realism" are always playing hide-and-seek with one another. For many Indian consumers, therefore, personal and collective sentiments, nationalism and consumerism, patriotism and love for one's family, are constantly...

.... In one form or another, this sensitivity to foreign perception and discomfort with neo-realism has continued to be heard, even as’lateas 1980, when the actress Nargis denounced Ray on the floor of Parliament for projecting a negative aspect of India. The second point is the obverse side...

...” or some “confusion.” The conclu- sion reached rather hastily in a space of less than four pages reads as fol- lows: “For Chinese literature to get out of the difficult situation, the only way available is a return to the principle of realism; for the Chinese writer (or even the entire literati...

... - of the popular film industry, of rhapsodic 'left' politics, of Mus- lim high society, of the general atmosphere of communalism - carries an idiomatic conviction, it is at least this reader's sense that so-called 'magical realism' becomes an alibi in the fabrication of Titlipur-Chatnapatna...

... America. Not coincidentally, Latin American cinema and literature have turned away from the magical realism of the generations of the 1960s and 1970s to a new realism that insistently pursues what Brazilian literary scholar Beatriz Jaguaribe calls “the shock of the real” — the raw portrayal...

.... Established in 1949, it was central to the Maoist state’s total control over the arts-training a new generation in socialist realism, excluding all other styles or languages in art, and focusing all artistic activity on “serving the people” (i.e., the Party-State). Architecturally, this centrally...

..., and on the political life of disas- ter by Michael Ralph; an inquiry into how middle classes are raced, by Gyanendra Pandey; an anthropological examination of color and feeling by Andrew Irving; and an argument for the contemporary valence of realism by Beatriz Jaguaribe. I am proud to present these authors...

... the motifs, tradition, realism, and visibility usually quilted into a feigned naturalistic realism. The nawab and Begam Ja¯n, dis- playing the accoutrements of religious, disinterested, companionate marriage, produced the semblance of a pious formulation of Muslim tradition. The nawab, a hajji who had...

... of representation in late Soviet society. Though different, each case nonetheless appears to utilize a com- mon substitutive logic of signification: The Experts reveals the failure of meto- nymic socialist realism to protect the symbolic order from the corrupting influ- ence of metaphorical parallelism; while...

... of German and Gastarbeiter perspectives, of ethnic identity and working-class experience. Liberal critics were right, however, to see Sierra Leone as a new hope for the apparently moribund contemporary German cinema. Schrader's vi- sual and narrative style, his minimalist realism, manages...

... by dominant culture. (And this holds true, e.g., for the emergence of allegory as a representational dominant in non-Western narrative.) The postmodern, like national allegory, is both conservative and critical, in the manner of, for example, the romantic symbol, nineteenth-century realism...