Evaluating Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone through Magic Realist Lenses
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Abstract
There is a growing interest in science fiction, afrofuturism, and supernatural tales. With this background, it is imperative that literary studies should identify and situate these narratives to enhance further scholarship. This paper examines Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone from the perspective of the generic family resemblance with magical realism. It seeks to identify the divergence and similarities between the genres and provides proof as to where this novel fits. The theoretical framework for the study is Magical Realism. The methodology is a textual analysis of Children of Blood and Bone. The findings of this paper prove that this novel is rooted, according to theory, into fantasy literature and not magical realism. The study concludes that Adeyemi’s novel is highly commendable as a narrative and is malleable to different approaches.
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