Violence, Resistance, and the Limits of Liberation in Hispanic Caribbean Literature: Black Bodies and Lo Real Maravilloso in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World 

By Serdzhan Ibryam Hasan
Magical realism, a literary mode in which supernatural or extraordinary events are presented as ordinary parts of everyday reality, is often understood not only as a literary genre but also as a political strategy for engaging with a history marked by violence, erasure, and silence.

Reclaiming the “Witch”: Black Feminist Resistance and the Limits of Négritude in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

by Serdzhan Ibryam Hasan
The figure of the “witch” has historically functioned as a socio-political construct used to discipline individuals who threatened dominant religious, patriarchal, and racial orders. In early modern contexts such as the Salem witch trials, accusations of witchcraft operated as mechanisms of social control through which women who transgressed religious and patriarchal expectations were marginalised and punished.