(In)visible Violence(s) in Tomás González's Workd: The case of Primero estaba el mar, Temporal and Abraham entre bandidos
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Tomás González, violence, Slavoj Žižek, Byung-Chul Han, Johan GaltungAbstract
Murders, tortures, rapes and terrorist attacks are not predominant topics in Primero estaba el mar, Temporal and Abraham entre bandidos. The three Tomas González’s novels differ, therefore, from the graphic representation of violence that has proliferated in Colombian media and almost monopolized Colombian literary production since 1990’s. This article tries, nonetheless, to demonstrate that violence is still there, beyond the visible and the immediate. Based on Johan Galtung’s, Slavoj Žižek’s y Byung Chul-Han’s theoric reflections on violence, this article addresses significant as: Why is so difficult to recognize, classify and enunciate violence in the Colombian literary context?
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