Magical realism in the Iraqi short story

Abstract

This research deals with magical realism by describing it as a new style and type of literature and a narrative theme different from the traditional narrative. Where the researchers traced the emergence of magical realism as a term, a concept, and its representations in the Western narrative, and representations in the Western narrative, and its received on the Arab side, and the research was adopted to study the most prominent elements of magical realism within the Iraqi story, and its narrative representation. We chose a group of Iraqi stories that represented this new type of narration, in which reality merges with non-reality, forming a new reality called magical realism. The research dealt with the emergence and representation of magical realism, then the elements of magical realism that were the focus of these stories' work, represented by the myth and its application among Iraqi storytellers, Then the research moved to the miraculous, its representation, then the real and the magical within the Iraqi story.