Alpha Magazine and the Post-War of the Thousand Days
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.358112Keywords:
Thousand Days war, representations of war, postwar literature in Colombia, Alpha magazineAbstract
This article explores the way in which the literary magazine Alpha of Medellín, starting in 1906, confronted the representations of the Thousand Days War. Its editors, fearful of seeing the war reactivated, whose images of terror circulated in the capital of Antioquia, proposed a serial publication that would be a textual platform for the meeting of Colombian writers, thinkers and artists with different political positions, former rivals during the war that had recently finished. To write this article, (1) the editorial line of Alpha was presented, (2) the images of the Thousand Day War exhibited in literary and pictorial works were explored, and (3) the representations about the War that had been built conservatives and liberals. It is concluded that Alpha magazine was born and developed as a part of a national project that sought to reduce the ideological violence that remained in the first Colombian postwar of the 20th century.
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