Magical Realism and Children's Literature: Diana Wynne Jones's Black Maria and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children as a Test Case

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  • Teya Rosenberg

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2001vol11no1art1336

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magical realism, children's literature, Diana Wynne Jones, Black Maria, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

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“Magical Realism and Children’s Literature: Diana Wynne Jones’s Black Maria and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children as a Test Case” (2001) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 11(1), pp. 14–25. doi:10.21153/pecl2001vol11no1art1336.