18 articles in this issue
Wilmar A. Ramírez López,Virginia Capote Díaz
Introduction
Reindert Dhondt
Through the portrayal of never-ending march of a caravan of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the novel Tierra quemada (2013) by the Colombian author Óscar Collazos explores the interrelation between different forms of violence and their deva... see more
Sebastián Saldarriaga Gutiérrez
The conceptual development of memory shows the need of constructing stories that confront grief without deactivating its political power. For this, following Rancière and Agamben, it’s necessary to promote dissent by making visible the “parts with no part... see more
Jorge Enrique Blanco García
This paper addresses the contemporary historical novel as a practice of critical ontology of the present. That is to say, a field of reflection that investigates the current ontological status. In the Colombian case, historical fiction has been attentive ... see more
Elvira Elizabeth Sánchez-Blake
The armed conflict in Colombia has generated a flow of journalistic and literary corpus that aimed to understand and reflect upon the violence that permeates the country. Telling the facts has become a duty, and analyzing them in the light of the truth, a... see more
Ingrid Urgelles,Danilo Santos
In this article we explore the paramilitary representation as a form of narrative violence of the so-called Internal Armed Conflict in Colombia in two XXI century novels: Viaje al interior de una gota de Sangre (2011) by Daniel Ferreira and ... see more
Luz Mary Giraldo
The impact of violence in Colombia, experienced throughout the twentieth century, and exalted in the intensity of the armed conflict imposed on society and privacy since the sixties and mid-second decades of the twenty-first, have been expressed in differ... see more
Karen Michell Cabezas Sarmiento
The man’s behavior in society is regulated by the concept of masculinity. This is a cultural concept which varies according to the place where the man grows up. In Colombia, the masculinity concept is permeated by the reality of armed conflict. In this co... see more
Wilmar A. Ramírez López
Some recent narratives about the armed conflict in Colombia have stressed the representation on the diversity of violence repertoires inscribed in the armed conflict frame upon women’s bodies. In this sense, these representations articulate a regime of vi... see more
Janneth Español Casallas
The poetics of Pilar Quintana (1972) and Melba Escobar (1976) place the reader in a recognizable space and time: they are rooted in regions of Colombia and in contemporary social problems. Both authors are interested in creating the aesthetics of their fi... see more
Ainhoa Montserrat Vásquez Mejías
TV series on drug trafficking have been subject of debate due their contents; however, there are no studies about the Mexican audience's reception of them. This qualitative research seeks to know the opinion of the Mexican youth regarding this type o... see more
Felipe Oliver
The novel Racimo (2014) by Diego Zúñiga is an ingenious assemble of local and global violence that traces a subtle relation between tragic events in different geographies and temporalities. Racimo effectively evokes the traumatic past... see more
Inés Vázquez
I discuss in this text the well-known “controversy” between Liliana Heker and Julio Cortázar from a little traveled perspective, linked to the analysis of social discourses, with attention to the traces left in them by the genocide of the forced disappear... see more
Ulla Szaszak Bongartz
This article explore the potential of the proper name as a contingent identity modulator in the Uruguayan author Armonía Somers’ novels, and, specifically, of nominal supplementarity (the act of twisting, overprinting, displacing or substituting... see more
Victoria García
La pasión según Trelew occupies a paradoxical place in the work of Tomás Eloy Martínez. On the one hand, it is the book that changed the author's life, as he himself has described it, and the only one whose writing process went through practical... see more
Kristine Vanden Berghe
Review. María Ospina Pizano, El rompecabezas de la memoria. Literatura, cine y testimonio de comienzos de siglo en Colombia. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2019
Priscilla Gac-Artigas
Review. Carlos Aguasaco. The New York City Subway Poems/Poemas del metro de Nueva York. Ashland Poetry Press, 2020
Verónica Haydeé Torres
Review. Ramiro Zó. El corazón de la escritura: la novela latinoamericana. Mendoza: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2019