{"id":253896,"date":"2007-08-06T17:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/06\/magical-realism-and-lazy-writing\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:54","slug":"magical-realism-and-lazy-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/06\/magical-realism-and-lazy-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Realism and Lazy Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <i>The Hindu<\/i> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/lr\/2007\/08\/05\/stories\/2007080550060200.htm\">article<\/a> by Tabish Khair about &#8220;The Laziness of Magical Realism&#8221; that touches on his belief that writers are using elements of magical realism as &#8220;shortcuts to narratability.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t quite come out and directly say this, but the sentiment behind the piece is that magical realism (that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Salman Rushdie) was a non-European, interesting tradition, that has been co-opted by lesser writers and has mutated into something laughable. And I totally agree. That&#8217;s partially why I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/dalkeyarchive.com\/context\/1652\/crack-manifesto\">Crack authors<\/a> so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s The Hindu has an article by Tabish Khair about &#8220;The Laziness of Magical Realism&#8221; that touches on his belief that writers are using elements of magical realism as &#8220;shortcuts to narratability.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t quite come out and directly say this, but the sentiment behind the piece is that magical realism (that of Gabriel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[3366,3336,3356,3346],"class_list":["post-253896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-crack-authors","tag-hindu","tag-magical-realism","tag-tabish-khair"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363726,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253896\/revisions\/363726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}