Magical realism is the language of the emergent Post‐Truth world

Drawing on a number of new readings ‘Post-Truth’, defined as ‘Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential shaping public opinion than appeals emotion and personal belief’, our essay interrogates the extent magical realism may be understood paradigmatic quintessential discourse Post-Truth era. We paraphrase Homi Bhabha’s famous statement, made 1990s, that ‘magical is language emergent postcolonial world’, propose that, twenty-first century, world. In this we analyze compare techniques used novels such García Márquez’s One Hundred Years Solitude, Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Mo Yan’s Big Breasts Wide Hips Murakami’s 1Q84. combine Matthew d’Ancona’s robust call should fight against follies political with Anne Hegerfeldt’s argument designed teach general how read between lines politicians’ speeches order become mature defender truth, therefore magical-realist novelist, effect, ends up telling ‘lies tell truth’.