• Read Culterate’s Winter Issue (2024)!

    Read Culterate’s Winter Issue (2024)!

    A Note from Culterate’s Editor-in-Chief Childhood. Biggest heartbreak. Medea and Jason. Did Khufu build the Great Pyramid? In this issue, we took a different approach by not being confined to a single theme. Anything that calls to you, write it and share it. These authors have done so brilliantly, as you will soon see within…

  • A Voice from Beyond: Women, Society, and Magical Realism in “The Shrouded Woman”

    A Voice from Beyond: Women, Society, and Magical Realism in “The Shrouded Woman”

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    Claude Monet, Camille Monet on her deathbed, 1879 The Shrouded Woman is a novel by Chilean author María Luisa Bombal, first published in 1938. This classic work exemplifies the genre of magical realism, which blends fantastical elements with a realistic narrative, creating a dreamlike yet grounded portrayal of events. In magical realism, the extraordinary is…