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.
Tag: violence
Poem: Real people do not die in a movie war
by Sadaf Javed
War in real life wages
without uplifting music to silence the screams.
“I don’t feel safe at all” Intimidation, surveillance and Police Brutality. Social Safety or Terror at Radboud University?
Instead of addressing the many structural forms of discrimination and the way students become victims of policy, the university prioritizes events which are intended to function as a band-aid to these systemic failures. This absolves the administrative bodies of any responsibility regarding the hardships that the students are going through, and places the well-being of the students in the hands of each individual.
Poem: Is This Love?
by Chiara Palmeri
“I lived in his shadow, in the imprisonment he imposed, but he never slapped me.”