lo real maravilloso americano

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Lo real maravilloso americano is a literary-aesthetic concept coined by Alejo Carpentier to describe the uniquely marvelous, myth-infused, and historically rich reality of Latin America that naturally blends the fantastic with the everyday.

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lo real maravilloso 1
lo real maravilloso americano canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aesthetic concept
critical term
literary concept
appliesTo Caribbean literature
Latin American baroque tradition
associatedWith Alejo Carpentier
Colonial Baroque
surface form: Latin American baroque

magical realism
coreIdea history and myth are inseparable in Latin America
the extraordinary emerges from everyday life
the marvelous is inherent in American reality
countryOfOrigin Cuba
creator Alejo Carpentier
describedIn essays by Alejo Carpentier
prologue to El reino de este mundo
differentFrom European surrealism
fantasy as pure invention
emphasizes continuity between myth and history
embeddedness of the fantastic in social reality
ontological reality of the marvelous
field Latin American studies
aesthetics
literary theory
hasInfluencedWork El reino de este mundo
Latin American historical novels
Los pasos perdidos
hasPart baroque sensibility
blend of fantastic and real
cultural syncretism
mythic imagination
influenced Latin American narrative
boom latinoamericano
magical realism
postcolonial literary criticism
language Spanish
mainSubject Latin American reality
everyday life
history
marvelous
myth
philosophicalBasis cultural and religious syncretism in the Americas
historical experience of conquest and colonization
region Latin America
timeOfCoinage mid-20th century
usedAs alternative to European-centered aesthetics
framework for reading Latin American literature

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Alejo Carpentier notableConcept lo real maravilloso americano
Latin American literature hasCriticalConcept lo real maravilloso americano
this entity surface form: lo real maravilloso