A study of common fields of interesting to magical realism in the south of Iran and south American

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Magical Realism is the way in which fantasy and reality in there so blend together that there isn’t a clear boundary between them. . Although Gabriel Garcia Marquez as leading the way and some of the writers that have lived in the South American but this genre found in the Third World countries . . Gholam Hossein Saedi and Monyru Ravanipoor as a pioneer in this literary field are known In Iran.But the note point to is that the most of this authors are from south of Iran. Our efforts in this paper is while review the political, social, economic and cultural condition regions of south Iran and South America, we investigate the common fields and reasons that writers tend to magical realism in this areas. . It seems certain climatic conditions, distance from urban centers, economic poverty and illiteracy, has caused the tendency of people‘s this region to myths, superstitions and magic and it provided an appropriate arena to imagination such that the element of imagination has part of the reality of their lives. These fields have accompanied with factors such as: strategic location’s these regions and benefit from valuable resources, presence of colonists, strangulation in the central government and the risk of native culture And it has led to the intellectual author to use of the magical elements to enlightenment, escape of repression and trying to revival of native culture.

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Journal of Comparative Literature
Volume 8, Issue 14
September 2016
Pages 203-221

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