Muhammad Bilal Latif

Historical Trauma, Abolitionism, and Social Reforms in Selected American Novels

This article examines how selected American novels reimagine slavery not as a closed historical episode, but as an enduring psychic, cultural, and social wound that continues to shape contemporary structures of inequality and reform. Focusing on six novels—Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979), Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left H...