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.

Murdering Clothes: Addressing Feminicide in Teresa Margolles’ Cimbra Formwork 

by Rosa Floris
In her 2006 conceptual artwork Cimbra Formwork, Teresa Margolles incorporates real clothes from women who were victims of gendered violence and feminicide in Ciudad Juárez. She is thereby responding to the phenomenon of feminicide, but what exactly does her artwork communicate?