Lucy Kemnitzer: I wouldn't call anything magic realism that was written before Garcua Marquez, which allows a pretty early date, but also, written outside Latin America much before the Pinochet coup.
I'd start a bit earlier than that. Magic realism can be found in Dutch and Flemish literature of the 1920s (and, as I understand, in North and South American literature of that time as well).
According to this website on Dutch literature
(the first site to show up in Google) the term "magic realism" was first used in 1923.
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