{"title":"El periodismo literario del conflicto en Colombia: Olga Behar, El clan de los doce apóstoles y María T. Ronderos, Guerras recicladas","authors":"Elvira Sánchez-Blake","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.473","url":null,"abstract":"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 responsibility. This essay analyzes two representative works of literary journalism that have had an impact on public opinion and, furthermore, have revealed important issues about recent national events: El clan de los doce apostoles (The Twelve Apostles Club) by Olga Behar (Icono, 2011) and Guerras recicladas: una historia periodistica del paramilitarismo en Colombia (Recycled Wars: A Journalistic History of Paramilitarism in Colombia) by Maria Teresa Ronderos (Aguilar, 2014). The objective is to explore the authors narrative techniques to create critical awareness about one movement that generated the major impact on Colombia’s armed conflict: the paramilitarism. I analyze the narrative techniques building upon the concepts studium and punctum proposed by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida, as discursive strategies for transmitting powerful messages about Colombian realities.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"92-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42234866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tierra quemada by Óscar Collazos as an Allegory of Displacement in Colombia","authors":"R. Dhondt","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.487","url":null,"abstract":"Through the portrayal of never-ending march of a caravan of internally displaced persons (IDPs), the novel Tierra quemada (2013) by the Colombian author Oscar Collazos explores the interrelation between different forms of violence and their devastating impact on the peripheric outposts of Colombia. This article proposes an allegorical reading of the novel by examining how it represents the difficulty to break the cycle of violence and the impact of a low-intensity conflict on the IDPs, without presenting a voyeuristic perspective of the violence nor a Manichean vision of the armed conflict.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49256279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racimo. De los crímenes locales a los crímenes de la globalización","authors":"Felipe Oliver","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.456","url":null,"abstract":"The novel Racimo (2014) by Diego Zuniga 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 from a unique perspective that attempts to link the 1973 Copu d´etat with the terrorist attacks in New York in 2001. Local memory therefore is questioned from a global perspective. In other words, the novel suggests the need to exanimate the Chilean September 11 through its connection with the 9/11.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"305-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47604239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reseña. María Ospina Pizano, El rompecabezas de la memoria. Literatura, cine y testimonio de comienzos de siglo en Colombia. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2019","authors":"Kristine Vanden Berghe","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.482","url":null,"abstract":"Review. Maria Ospina Pizano, El rompecabezas de la memoria. Literatura, cine y testimonio de comienzos de siglo en Colombia . Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2019","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"434-443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47259067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿Súplica inaudible? Poesía y violencia en poetas colombianas","authors":"Luz Mary Giraldo","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.484","url":null,"abstract":"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 different ways by some Colombian creators. This document seeks to draw attention to some literary representations of the subject and the poetic effects offered by its authors, by expressing awareness of the pain that the war has caused. Aware of the devastating repercussions of the homicides, kidnappings and displaced persons that the violence has generated, the authors assume their creative role pointing out the horror and, in the case of the authors, the emphasis on some of a belligerent attitude, deep desolation and skepticism. The styles are varied and particular, as some reflect the trembling caused by anguish and restlessness, others express anguish with a furious or fearful tone, and others a hopeless feeling in the face of a shattered universe. They are generally voices that express individual and collective pain.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"148-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41322401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cortázar-Heker (1978-1981). Polémica elidida/genocidio negado","authors":"Inés Vázquez","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.443","url":null,"abstract":"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 disappearance of people carried out by the civic dictatorship -Army military (1976-1983). I point out as a working hypothesis the impossibility of the controversy presented by Heker, based on the tear, under the conditions of the dictatorial context, of the prevailing “reading contract” in the cultural interaction of the Latin American and Argentine left during the 1960s-70s. I analyze the “emotion / exaggeration” categories, and some of their associated terms, as a critical resource used by Heker against certain statements by Cortázar. I thus seek to approximate a critical reflection on what I call “genocide denied” as a condition accepted in Heker's speech to carry out his “controversy”.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70728882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Articulaciones de la violencia contra la mujer en el marco de las narrativas del conflicto armado colombiano","authors":"Wilmar A. Ramírez López","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.485","url":null,"abstract":"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 visibility, as they problematize the ways in which the different cases of violence are structured and legitimized in the social frame. This paper analyzes the specific ways that the violence operates upon feminine bodies in the novels: Era mucho el miedo (2016) by Gloria Inés Peláez, La fruta del borrachero (2018) by Ingrid Rojas Contreras and La sembradora de cuerpos (2019) by Philip Potdevin.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70729139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representar la violencia. Aproximaciones literarias al Conflicto Armado colombiano","authors":"Wilmar A. Ramírez López, Virginia Capote Díaz","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.497","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70729020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La evolución ideológica de Rodolfo Walsh a través de las ediciones de Operación Masacre","authors":"Marta Puente, Ana Davis","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.447","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is divided into two sections; in the first, the use of two genres –originally foreign to canonical literature– is analyzed in the novel Operación Masacre (1957) by the Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh: the so-called “non-fiction” and the police genre. The denunciation project based on its production context –Argentina after Revolución Libertadora (1955)– conditions the use of these genres due to their suitability to link fiction and political reality. But the complaint does not stay the same throughout the different editions of the book, the evolution of which is in line with other socio-political changes in the country. Specifically, the approach of the left to Peronism generates an attraction in intellectuals who, like Walsh, see in Perón’s doctrine a political resistance against the injustices of the State. For this reason, in the second part of the work, this evolution is examined in Operación Masacre’s paratexts since they reveal Walsh’s approach to Peronism and give a new meaning to the denunciation of his novel.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"185-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45826559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vicente, autoficção de Jorge Andrade","authors":"Carlos Gontijo Rosa","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.438","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concentrates on the autofiction in drama, which is a very peculiar procedure much distinct of the autofiction in the novel. This is due to the scenic representation, the actor’s presence, and other intrinsic characteristics of the dramatic genre, making that the reader or the spectator views the border between fiction and reality in a very particular way. Regarding the character Vicente, present on three plays of the Brazilian playwright Jorge Andrade and who we focus on our discussion, we propose to consider it as an autofictional character, despite its status of autobiographical by the criticism and by the author himself.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"283-306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41392546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}