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.