Magical/Realism Quotes

“A haunting is the earth in the act of remembering, a repeating record of the past that collapses time, shining its echoes into the present and future. To be haunted is to remember with the earth.”
― Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

“What will it mean for all labour itself to be dehumanized?”
― Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

“Something vital about language-how we make, read, understand the world, communicate, see one another-is slipping away. Language is a threat to power, and if avenues for discourse and truth-telling disappear, without the relation language makes possible, it is harder to create the allegories that help us see others' struggles as our own.”
― Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

“The concept of the human is rooted in European definitions of personhood; to be human is to always carry the historical baggage of colonialism and be defined by its inventions of gender, class, and race.”
― Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders