Abstract
In her essay “Scheherazade’s Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern Fiction,” Wendy B. Faris notes that in magical realism, “realistic descriptions create a fictional world that resembles the one we live in, in many instances by extensive use of detail. On the one hand, the attention to the sensory detail in this transformation represents a continuation, a renewal of the realistic tradition. But on the other hand . . .