Women In Turbulent Times Magic Realism In The Selected Works Of Toni Morrison And Shahrnush Parsipur

Abstract

ABSTRACT newlineA research work intends to implicate certain things, such as: enriches the wealth of human newlineknowledge, better understanding, prevent stagnation of knowledge, makes us aware of what is newlinebeyond, judgement is sharpened, critical insight improvement etcetera. But one of the basic newlinethings that a research work does is: pursuit of truth from various angles. Finding truth or at newlineleast come closer to the truth in this ever-evolving world is what we all do. We witness certain newlinephenomenon and try to figure out the reason behind it and leave the other cosmic event; we newlinehave humans and their history as one of the nearest complex structures to study, and every time newlinewe study our kind, it never fails to astonish. newlineTo study Magic Realism and its aspect regarding accepting the truth, we have to have a newlinesystematic method to read it further. The truth a particular novel is subscribing to must have a newlinepast, most likely an unfortunate past; for example: Salman Rushdie s Midnight s Children, newlinetheme of creation vs. destruction on the night of Indian independence (creation of India as a newlinesovereign nation and destruction of it into another nation through partition), or if we take Toni newlineMorrison s Beloved, depicting the history of slavery with it. Ohio 124 in Beloved can be seen newlinenot only as a house, rather a world that contains history of slavery, civil war and lots of emotions newlinein itself with a true story of Margaret Garner. Tracing past truth behind the novels and to get a newlinepresent context of it would facilitate our perception. Subsequently, going through the authors newlinelife, if he/she had experienced any of the written truth. If yes, then how intensely it impacted newlinehis/her writing. Further, consciously reading the novel and see what supernatural and fantastical newlineelements has been used and how it has been restricted by the reality. newlineNot only that but this study would also give a glimpse of how these novels could have used newlinemagical elements in the chapters and scenes to fabricate a world that is all positive. Besides, newlinethe pre