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The prevalence of ghosts in minority and immigrant literatures within the United States suggests that mimesis cannot fully capture realities beyond selective, mainstream history. Mimetic narratives may be assimilated with the... more
The prevalence of ghosts in minority and immigrant literatures within the United States suggests that mimesis cannot fully capture realities beyond selective, mainstream history. Mimetic narratives may be assimilated with the controversial term magical realism. In Décoloniser l’imaginaire, I have suggested a definition of this genre involving not only the magic within the real, but also a questioning and re-working of dominant cultural histories in which the author and/or protagonist is immersed.