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Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero’s Los ejércitos
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Description
The plot of Evelio Rosero’s Los ejércitos (2007, The Armies) is set amidst the most violent period of the Colombian civil war. While focused on event-centered violence, Los ejércitos provides a literary insight into other forms of attritional or systemic violence. This chapter appeals to Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence and Slajov Žižek’s notion of objective violence to analyze how the long-term consequences of the conflict are represented in the novel. This examination entails connecting these forms of violence with the spectral topographies present in the novel. It shows how Los ejércitos addresses collective trauma and challenges the binaries implied by the concept of slow violence.
ISBN
978-1-03223-373-4
Publication Date
12-2-2019
Publication Source
Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World
Publisher
Routledge
Recommended Citation
Bravo, Carlos Gardeazábal, "Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero’s Los ejércitos" (2019). Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty. 149.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/books/149
Comments
Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo is a faculty member in the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at the University of Dayton.