HYBRIDITY IN MAGIC REALISM

 HYBRIDITY IN MAGIC REALISM

Magic Realism is all about mixing things up: the fantastic with the mundane, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream life with waking life, reality, and unreality.

If you want to be fancy-schmancy about it, you can say that Magic Realism is characterized by hybridity. We're serious about this: Magic Realists often take the most unrelated things and mix them up to see what happens. It's sort of like if a cook tossed chocolate and chicken and sushi and root beer, tossed it all into a pot and served it up as an exciting new dish. It's probably going to taste a little weird, but it won't be like anything you've had before.