Hope, faith, and charity: foundations for a (new) nation in Soraya Juncal’s Jacinta y la violencia
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.n40a02Keywords:
intersectionality, feminism, theological virtues, Colombian literature, conservatismAbstract
In this article I analyze Soraya Juncal’s Jacinta y la violencia and its arrangement of matters of class, race, and gender. I argue that it conveys a conservativepartisan idea, and I find that whereas it is feasible to link the novel to a Feminist aesthetics, it is really hard to go any further, politically wise, because the story is dedicated to perpetuate oppressive systems. I chose the Theological Virtues (Faith, Charity, and Hope) as deconstruction devices because it is not possible to trace intersectional matters in Jacinta y la violencia, without understanding them in a context of an utterly Catholicized nation that sees everything in essentialist ways.
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