Magical Feminism: The Female Voices of Magic Realism in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits and Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate

Magic realism is a distinct subgenre of writing that works on the mechanism of paradoxes of placing two opposites together to make a rich and complex meaningthe fusion of real and fantastic as Angel Flores calls it 'amalgamation of realism and fantasy'.Magic Realism can also be read as a Postcolonial weapon as it fight backs the traditional tendencies and the staunch realism of western literature.Female voices have also employed magic realism to say aloud the problems of women across the globe.Magic Realism has thrived well in the hands of women writers across cultures and continents.