Magical Realism in the World of Cartoons and its Impact on Children

Abstract

Magischer Realismus or Magic Realism, coined by Franz Roh in 1920, captures the mystery of life behind surface reality. A term introduced in 1925 referring to art that attempts to produce a clear depiction of reality that includes a presentation of the mysterious elements of everyday life. It is an expression that includes magical happenings in a realist-matter-of-fact, where supernaturalism becomes an ordinary matter. Since the 1980’s, the term ‘magical realism’ has become both highly fashionable and highly derided. It refers to a particular narrative mode discussing the alternative approaches to reality like Western Philosophy, Postcolonial, Postmodern and Non-Western works of Contemporary fiction.