Seminar paper from the yr 2006 within the topic American experiences - Literature, grade: 1,7, loose college of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institute), direction: The Subaltern Speaks: Minority Literature within the united states, 17 entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: during this paper I specialize in substantial U.S. authors: Toni Morrison and Ana Castillo. the truth that those writers - who don't percentage an analogous ethnic history - either set up the literary mode of magical realism of their works has engaged my curiosity to research and evaluate their novels loved and to this point from God. the aim of this paper isn't just to probe into the character of magical realism within the novels, but additionally to check this narrative shape as a socio-cultural perform that's attached to a distinct Weltanschauung. to go into this mammoth territory, it is going to be beneficial to situate the time period magical realism in a theoretical and cultural framework which occurs within the following bankruptcy. therefore, i'm going to reveal how Morrison and Castillo hire magical realism in liked and to this point from God, and, particularly, i attempt to determine its functionality and the position it performs when it comes to Morrison′s and Castillo′s cultural and ancient history. within the end i'm going to reveal the parallels which are drawn among the novels, arising with the thesis that for those parallels, there are underlying major features of magical realism.