A common catch phrase summarizes this idea with "behind every great man, is an even greater woman,"" meaning that in the social hierarchy where men reign supreme, the male platform is built upon the strength of the maternal, held thickly in the metaphorical womb. ... The term magical realism, itself, originates from the pen of German critic, Franz Roh, in 1925, and was used to describe a group of Post Expressionist artists, but later delved into describing a Latin American literary genre popularized from after World War II, to the beginnings of the 1980s, around the time when Allende's H...

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