1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature
This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the world, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the pre-Colombian era, and how each has been seen and characterized in literature and other cultural mediums ever since.
This ambitious collection analyzes texts from some of the region's most tumultuous time periods, beginning with early violence that was predominately tribal and ideological in nature; to colonial and decolonial violence between colonizers and the native population; through to the political violence we have seen in the postmodern period, marked by dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, neoliberalism, as well as representations of violence caused by drug trafficking and migration.
The volume provides readers with literary examples from across the centuries, showing not only how widespread the violence has been, but crucially how it has shaped the region and evolved over time.
Introduction: Social and historical presentation
Pablo Baisotti
SECTION I: Early representations of violence in Latin American Literature
CHAPTER 1
"Procuró sosegar y pacificar los indios": Colonial Violence in Latin America
M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo
CHAPTER 2
Discursive territories and epistemic violence in the Andean colonial indigenous literature
Nicolas Beauclair
CHAPTER 3
After Ercilla: violence and militarism in the colonial epic (1569-1610)
Javier de Navascués
CHAPTER 4
Women and War in the Colonial Spanish American Epic: Gendered Boundaries and Erotic Conquest
Sarissa Carneiro
CHAPTER 5
Spaces of Violence in Vice-royal Chronicles: about Inca and Mexica-Tenochca Narrative Tradition
Jhonnatan Zavala, and Clementina Battcock
SECTION II: Ideological Violence in Latin American Literature
CHAPTER 6
Honor Killing in 20th Century Latin American Fiction
Jay Corwin
CHAPTER 7
Frantz Fanon in his Third World: Violence and Decolonization
Marcelo Sanhueza
CHAPTER 8
Inscriptions and configurations of violence. Italian immigration in Argentina
Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera
CHAPTER 9
History, Violence and Fiction in Alejo Carpentier’s Novel Reasons of State
Rodica Grigore
Chapter 10
Marxist-Leninist Anti-Capitalist Success: Muted Violence in Yáñez’s Edge of the Storm, Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, and Galindo’s Precipice
Nancy Ann Watanabe
CHAPTER 11
Martín Fierro as an integral part of the Peronist identity
Pablo Baisotti
CHAPTER 12
Postcolonial violence and indigeneity in the testimonio Andean Lives. Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán
Ahmed Correa and Ignacio López-Calvo
SECTION III: Popular Violence and Dictatorships in Latin American Literature
CHAPTER 13
Remembering Violence: The Narrative of '68 in Mexico
Stefano Tedeschi
CHAPTER 14
Dulce patria, a collection of poems about the Chilean dictatorship
Horacio Gutiérrez
CHAPTER 15
Pain is measured and detailed: representations of pain and guilt in the works of Alejandro Zambra and Carlos Gamerro
Macarena Areco
CHAPTER 16
From Nunca más to Ni una menos. Testimony and fiction in contemporary Argentine narrative
Victoria García
CHAPTER 17
Rodolfo Walsh and Cuba: Commitment and Militancy in the Shared Origins of Latin American Testimonio and Third Cinema
Alejandro Pedregal
CHAPTER 18
Violence and silence in the feminine narrative on the last civic-military dictactorship in Argentina: neither tricks of the weak nor resilience
Marcela Crespo Buiturón
CHAPTER 19
Representations of Violence and Peace in Contemporary Central American Narrative
Werner Mackenbach
CHAPTER 20
Counting and recounting stories and bodies: Alfredo Molano on violence and morality
Alejandro Sánchez Lopera
CHAPTER 21
Violence and Responsibility: Ingrid Betancourt and No Silence That Does Not End
Jeffrey Cedeño Mark
SECTION IV: New forms of violence in Latin American Literature
CHAPTER 22
Sons without a homeland. Young migrants in contemporary literature
Elena Ritondale
CHAPTER 23
Solange Rodríguez Pappe, Mónica Ojeda and Denise Phé Funchal: femicide in contemporary fantastic literature
Emanuela Jossa
CHAPTER 24
Cien botellas en una pared and Blanco nocturno: The Feminization and Queering of Representations of Violence in Latin American Novels of the [early] 21st Century
Mariana Romo-Carmona
CHAPTER 25
Gender based Violence in Latin-American Neo Crime Fiction Literature. The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguín
Fabián Mossello
CHAPTER 26
Labor Metamorphosis and Violence against Women in Sergio Chejfec’s The Dark
Matías Beverinotti
CHAPTER 27
Skin-Deep: A Psycho-Ontological Analysis of Violence in Sergio Bizzio’s Rabia
Alexander Torres
CHAPTER 28
Representations of violence in Mexico's theater
Hugo Salcedo Larios
CHAPTER 29
Postapocalyptic Violence in 21st-century Mexican fiction
Aurelio Iván Guerra, and Gabriel Osuna Osuna
CHAPTER 30
"The past is forever unpredictable": aesthetic and political projections in contemporary Bolivian narrative
Magdalena González Almada
CHAPTER 31
Literary Discourse and Representations of Violence. Spaces and Communities in Argentine Narrative of the 21st century
Liliana Tozzi
Chapter 32
Three poems / Tres poemas
Jesús J. Barquet
Biography
Pablo Baisotti received his PhD in Politics, Institutions and History from the University of Bologna School of Political Science in 2015. Before that he received an MPhil in International Relations in Europe-Latin America from the University of Bologna in 2008 and an MA in Law and Economic Integration from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Salvador in 2007. He received his Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Salvador in 2004. He was Fellow Researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in China and full-time Research Fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center, University of Costa Rica. He is currently Associate External Researcher at the University of Brasilia (Department of Latin American Studies). He has published and edited more than 20 books.
