ABSTRACT
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
part Section I|63 pages
Early Representations of Violence in Latin American Literature
chapter 4|14 pages
Women and War in the Colonial Spanish American Epic
chapter 5|10 pages
Spaces of Violence in Vice-royal Chronicles
part Section II|115 pages
Ideological Violence in Latin American Literature
chapter 10|13 pages
Marxist-Leninist Anti-Capitalist Success
chapter 12|16 pages
Postcolonial Violence and Indigeneity in the testimonio
part Section III|134 pages
Popular Violence and Dictatorships in Latin American Literature
chapter 15|10 pages
Pain is Measured and Detailed
chapter 16|14 pages
From Nunca más to Ni una menos
chapter 17|15 pages
Rodolfo Walsh and Cuba
chapter 18|12 pages
Violence and Silence in the Feminine Narrative on the Last Civic-Military Dictatorship in Argentina 1
chapter 20|15 pages
Counting and Recounting Stories and Bodies
part Section IV|160 pages
New Forms of Violence in Latin American Literature