How to Identify Myth and Religion in Hispanic/Latino Lit
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Spirituality, magic, and myth play an important role in many literary works, but all have a special emphasis in Hispanic/Latino literature.
Identify how religion, myths, magic, magical realism, and so forth are incorporated in the Hispanic/Latino culture.
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Ways to identify myth, magic, magical realism and religion in Hispanic and Latino culture, primarily in their works of literature are listed in the solution.
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Magical realism actually originated in Latin culture. It is basically a literary style which the Latin America developed that combines fantastic or dreamlike elements with realistic elements. Magic elements were bonded with reality and blended into a realistic atmosphere, and these ideas of what were real and what ...
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