![]() ![]() It is interesting to note that both the mother figures in A Terrible Matriarchy and Like Water for Chocolate die in the end and resurface as ghostly figures albeit for a short time. The novels follow a similar trajectory where the situational placements of the protagonists are contained by society, family politics and a matriarchal head. The stark similarity comes across, in particular, when the aspects of matriarchy and magic realism are concerned. This paper aims to draw a comparative analysis of three works namely Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and A Terrible Matriarchy and Don’t Run, My Love by Easterine Kire, produced in two extremes of the globe at different periods of time but share a connection most likely to be present in them than in any other comparison. ![]() The characteristics that are varied in these writings go beyond this and a definitive individualistic fibre contained in them provide the flavours of struggle, magic, folklore, liberation, human nature, which emanate from these narratives. ![]() The writings that have emerged from previously colonised countries do not only embody a retaliation to historiographical establishments which have grounded a colonial identity for them such that mobility within these political identifications of marginalisation, barbarism, insurgency, among others, and to move away from them has been a historic venture. ![]()
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