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Between magic and reason: science in 19th century popular fiction by Roach, Katherine

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'Have Magic, Will Travel': Tourism and Harry Potter's United (Magical) Kingdom by Lee, Christina

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The real in the magic: a study of magic realism in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the sea of stories (1990) by Ali, Nuurzahirah, Mohd Ramli, Aimillia

“…While many studies have focused on Salman Rushdie’s use of magic realism in his highly-acclaimed novels, the way it is employed in his children’s fiction remains understudied. …”
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Tracing female resilience in KL Noir: magic through the lenses of psychogeography and carnivalesque by Seach, Jin Beng

“…The major capitals around the world have served as settings for many fictional works that showcase how the psyches of the characters have changed when interacting with these locations. …”
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ChatGPT Isn't Magic: The Hype and Hypocrisy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Rhetoric by Leaver, Tama, Srdarov, Suzanne

“…Clarke famously argued that in science fiction literature “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (Clarke). …”
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Ethnicity and displacement in multicultural societies: looking for the roots in M.G.Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida by Abbas, Hussein Ali, Mani, Manimangai

“…The return of immigrants from the Western countries into the country of origin is increasingly becoming a dominant theme in Canadian ethnic fiction. This article seeks to attribute this return to the multiculturalism, a system that identifies immigrants upon their ethnicities, race in specific. …”
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Bakhtinian’s carnivalesque in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop, several perceptions, nights at the circus and wise children by Shima Sadat Mirmusa

“…The paper convincingly argues how Carter’s fiction, an influential paradigm of magical realism, erodes the boundaries of the paradoxical impulses and celebrates the confusion of the categories through incorporating the theories of carnivalisation. …”
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Gender, Space, And Fantasy: Women’s Heterotopic Identities In Contemporary Japanese And Iranian Fiction by Asl, Moussa Pourya

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Internalized homophobia and rooted cosmopolitan identity in selected contemporary Indian diasporic fiction by Jeyasingam, Shobana

“…The current study is significant in its efforts to highlight the challenges to developing a cosmopolitan identity within cosmopolitan fiction of the Indian diaspora where previous research has mainly focused on ways to develop a cosmopolitan identity. …”
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Racism, identity and displacement in selected Canadian ethnic fictions by Lawrence Hill and M. G. Vassanji by Abbas, Hussein Ali

“…In Vassanji’s The Magic of Saida, Kamal Punja, who is born to a mixed family, suffers from an identity crisis because Canada does not recognise the identity of biracial immigrants. …”
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‘An altered view regarding the relationship between dreams and reality’: magic, politics and the comics medium in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow’s Providence by Green, Matthew J.A.

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Exploring trends and tropes in young adult fantasy literature from the U.S. since 2005 by Beestone, Kelly

“…This thesis contends that YA fantasy fiction continuously evolves to adapt to its ageing readership, calls for more diversity, and a circuitous relationship between publishers, authors, and content creators which enables fans to participate in the formation of a YA canon distinct from traditional fantasy literature. …”
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A study of the significance of the Australian historical novel in the period of the History Wars, 1988 - present by Jones, Joanne

“…The immeasurably vast space which lies beyond history, that space of those who are often unrepresented, often victims, often silent, is an abyss into which fiction, particularly historical fiction, is able imaginatively and ethically to descend.…”
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Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing by Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah, Pillai, Shanthini, Md. Yusof, Noraini

“…This article links Jungian literary criticism on archetypes with contemporary postcolonial theories on colonial discourse in travel writing (David Spurr) and the worlding of a colonized land (Gayatri Spivak) in order to understand the pattern of images in European travel writing that created the fiction of Malaya. This fiction is created through a process of worlding by European travelers from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. …”
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Spectral Bodies, Dystopian Cities: Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa, 1986-2012 by Waller, Thomas

“…While the thesis thus engages in an exegesis of Latin American fiction typically labelled ‘magical realist’, it ultimately argues that the Warwick Research Collective’s development of the category of critical irrealism is a more suitable rubric through which to study the literature of Portuguese-speaking southern Africa.…”
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Anti-museums and collecting as a subjective act by Danckaert, Marie Sophie

“…While there exists an endless variety of museums, public or private, treating of topics as varied as art, ethnology, naval history, death, gas, magic, or even commercial failure, it would be impossible to establish an exhaustive account of their respective peculiarities. …”
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Postcolonial ecocriticism and the comparison of southeast Asian and Caribbean literatures / Christopher Lloyd De Shield by Christopher , Lloyd De Shield

“…In Chapter Four, I consider Ishak Haji Muhammad‘s Putera Gunung Tahan (1937) alongside Alejo Carpentier‘s El Reino de Este Mundo (1943) so that each might comment on the other‘s magical representation of a specific colonial epistemological struggle. …”
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