Magic realism convinces readers the extraordinary occurs within the ordinary

Evidence

Magic realism uses the techniques and devices of realism—verisimilitude, ordinary lives and settings, familiar psychology—and introduces events of an impossible or fantastic nature, never leaving the tone and techniques of realism. Whereas fantasy attempts to bedazzle its readers with the amazing quality of the magic, magic realism works in the opposite direction, to convince the reader that the extraordinary occurs in the context and the guise of the ordinary. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 496

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clear operational contrast: fantasy shows off the magic, magic realism domesticates it.
• XREF: connects to: Readers simultaneously believe fiction and know it is fabricated — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 583; Realist detail works by metonymy to create worlds through association

Broader Connections

• Readers simultaneously believe fiction and know it is fabricated #complicates (0.70) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 583
• Realist detail works by metonymy to create worlds through association #expands (0.55)