Breathing from the Embattled: a Reading of Evelio Rosero Diago ́s Los ejércitos and Diamela Eltit ́s Los vigilantes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.18172Keywords:
literature and violence, Colombian literature, Chilean literature, Rosero, Evelio, Los ejércitos, Eltit, Diamela, Los vigilantesAbstract
Faced with the panorama of lived, narrated and naturalized violence in which we live in, one of the challenges of literature is the task of keep talking about it. How can it do this in such a way so as to convey the horror of violence, reminding us that violence is actually not normal? How can our literature approach the subject without falling into a logic that reproduces this violence? Los Ejércitos, by Evelio Rosero, and Los Vigilantes, by Diamela Eltit, are contemporary Latin American novels in which the authors explore ways of talking about violence that resist its normalization and even propose an outside of violence.
Downloads
References
Eltit, Diamela. (2004). Los vigilantes. Tres novelas. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Escobar, Augusto. (1996). “La violencia: ¿generadora de una tradición literaria”. Gaceta de Colcultura, 37, 21-29.
García Márquez, Gabriel. (1994). La mala hora. Bogotá: Oveja Negra.
Hosven, Roberto. (2008). “La escritura disidente de Diamela Eltit”. Revista de Crítica Literaria, 67, 309-322.
Hoyos, Héctor. (2012). “Visión desafectada y resingularización del evento violento en Los Ejércitos de Evelio Rosero”. En: Mabel Moraña e Ignacio Sánchez, (eds.). El lenguaje de las emociones: afecto y cultura en América Latina. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 283- 296.
Moraña, Mabel. (2010). “Violencia, sublimidad y deseo en Los ejércitos, de Evelio Rosero”. En: La escritura del límite. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 185-202.
Ortega, Julio. (2001).“Diamela Eltit”. BOMB,74, 38-41.
Rosero, Evelio. (2007). Los ejércitos. Barcelona: Tusquets Editores.
Rueda, María Helena. (2011). La violencia y sus huellas. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.
Rueda, María Helena y Gabriela Polit- Dueñas. (2011). Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin América. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Shklovski, Viktor. (1978). “El arte como artificio”. En: Tzvetan Todorov (ed.). Teoría de la literatura de los formalistas rusos. México: Siglo xxi, 55-70.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish in Estudios de Literatura Colombiana must meet the following criteria for authorship:
- Substantial contributions to the conception and design of the work; and the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work.
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
- Final approval of the version to be published.
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
In addition, the authors agree to the following terms:
- The authors are accountable for the content of the work.
- Estudios de Literatura Colombiana is not responsible for aspects related to copying, plagiarism or fraud that may appear in the articles published in it.
- It is the authors' responsibility to obtain the necessary permissions to reproduce any copyrighted material. When photographs or personal data are to be reproduced and disseminated in printed or digital form, informed consent is required. Therefore, this requirement must be met by the authors upon receipt of the manuscript.
- The authors retain moral rights and transfer their economic rights to Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, which will correspond to the Universidad de Antioquia, to publish the articles on the website, brochures, social networks, distribute electronic copies, include them in indexing services, directories, national and international database repositories, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Commercial License (CC BY-NC-SA).
- The authors will sign the declaration of transfer of economic rights to the Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, after acceptance of the manuscript.
- Authors may not withdraw the manuscript once it has been approved for publication. Otherwise they will have to bear the costs of the process. If they intend to withdraw the manuscript before its approval, they must send an official statement approved by all the authors.
- The material created by you may be distributed, copied and exhibited by third parties if and only if it is specified in the credits. No commercial benefit may be obtained and derived works must be compulsorily under the same terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Commercial License (CC BY-NC-SA) used in the original work.
0
