My father knew I understood more than I could say. He told me stories about Cuba after Columbus came. He said that the Spaniards wiped out more Indians with smallpox than with muskets.Which best describes an element of magic realism used by Garcia in this excerpt

She connects the events to the colonial history of Latin America.

Explanation:

Magical realism very popular in Latin America. It is characterized by the combination, in a single work, fantastic elements and elements that do not exist in real life, with real, historical and common elements in our daily life. This aspect seeks to show unreal things as common things, with nothing special that can happen at any time, with anyone.

As mentioned above, fantastic realism usually expresses real and historical elements and this can be seen in the exception shown in the question above, where the writer connects events to the colonial history of Latin America.

The answer is Encyclopedia.com

Explanation: and encyclopedia provide general overviews of most topics. A dictionary will only give a sentence definition. Expanded academic ASAP and EBSCO or both databases where you can locate pacific articles contain in periodicals.