Coloniality of Power and Commodity Fetishism around the Plantation in The Devil of the Provinces (2017) by Juan Cárdenas
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Colombian fiction, Plantation, Coloniality of power, MythologiesAbstract
This article analyzes how Juan Cárdenas’ novel, The Devil of the Provinces, narrates the complex relationships between monocultures, political corruption, religious manipulation, and organized crime. Within the novel’s universe, these elements configure a set of mysterious and strange forces, and illuminate a series of structural power relations that govern the distribution of labor, violence, access to education, and control over life in the Colombian reality. This reflection articulates decolonial theory and the critique of capitalism to analyze Cárdenas's reinterpretation of the literary canon around the plantation.
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