Haunting Without Ghosts: Spectral Realism in Colombian Literature, Film, and Art by Juliana Martínez (Martinez)
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Overview: For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism―above all, the works of Gabriel García Márquez―where ghosts told stories about the country’s violent past and warned against a similarly gruesome future.
Decades later, the story of violence in Colombia is no less horrific, but the critical resources of magical realism are depleted. In their wake comes “spectral realism.” Juliana Martínez argues that recent Colombian novelists, filmmakers, and artists―from Evelio Rosero and William Vega to Beatriz González and Erika Diettes―share a formal and thematic concern with the spectral but shift the focus from what the ghost toward what the specter . These works do not speak of ghosts. Instead, they use the specter to destabilize reality by challenging the authority of human vision and historical chronology.
By introducing the spectral into their work, these artists decommodify well-worn modes of representing violence and create a critical space from which to seek justice for the dead and disappeared. A Colombia-based study, brings powerful insight to the politics and ethics of spectral aesthetics, relevant for a variety of sociohistorical contexts.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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