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Mattius Rischard

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Magical pow(d)ers: the resistance capital of subaltern networks in Wade Davis’s the Serpent and the Rainbow

Frontiers in Human Dynamics June 18, 2025 Mattius Rischard

Posthuman “borderlands” are represented in literature as diverse repetitions of similar dynamics of power. The postcolonial literature of Haiti presents a unique situation in comparison to the networks of power observed in political economic theory. Colonized people are the central actors in Haiti: they create posthuman entities such as the zombies to reclaim a political agency. Employing...