The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature: (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.