scholarly journals Fifty Million Shades of Gray: Recent Approaches to Colombian History

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 655
Author(s):  
Richard Stoller
Keyword(s):  
Colombian History

The Making of the Creole Peace, 1958–1960

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Karl
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Revolutionary Violence ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Colombian History

This chapter discusses how the Lleras administration's political pardon and agrarian lending program extended to frontier Communists such as Manuel Marulanda an opportunity to restore their rights and livelihoods. Though Latin American historians have concentrated on the grander utopian visions of geopolitical insurgency and revolutionary politics that took shape after the Cuban revolution of 1959, the crux of Colombian politics remained in these local, regional, and national contexts. Moreover, situating peace alongside violence accordingly entails a sweeping reinterpretation of not only Colombian history but also the Latin American 1960s—ostensibly an era of revolutionary violence. A focus on peace reveals a greater coherence to the words and decisions of well-known historical figures such as Marulanda.

Forgotten Peace

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Karl
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Memory Formation ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Colombian History

This book examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. The book reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history—including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language—the book provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Broad in scope, this book challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America.

scholarly journals The Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, 1830-1930

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-529
Author(s):  
Michael F. Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Colombian History

scholarly journals Gabriella Infinita: a perspective of Colombian history and culture through electronic literature

Texto Digital ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Perla Sassón-Henry
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Literature ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Colombian History

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2015v11n1p46Gabriella Infinita é um marco da literatura latino-americana digital do autor colombiano Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz. É um "romance hipermídia" em espanhol que foi originalmente escrito e publicado como um romance tradicional, impresso em 1994, para mais tarde se tornar um hipertexto e um romance hipermídia. Como uma peça literária, Gabriella Infinita é um excelente exemplo de literatura latino-americana. Ela traz à tona os assuntos que têm sido comuns a muitos países latino-americanos, tais como uma guerra civil, conflitos de guerrilha, repressão, liberdade de expressão, medo e exílio. Também destaca o fascínio da América Latina com os Estados Unidos e os movimentos de contracultura da década de 1970. Este ensaio explora como o escritor colombiano Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz usa as várias modalidades das novas mídias em seu hipermídia Gabriella Infinita para fornecer uma melhor compreensão da cultura e da história colombiana.

scholarly journals Decolonization and Demystification: One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nationhood

MANUSYA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-87
Author(s):  
Suradech Chotiudompant
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
The West ◽  
Cien Anos De Soledad ◽  
Colombian History

This essay aims to explore how the interconnected issues of nationhood and national identity are treated in Gabriel García Márquez's novel Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Through a discussion of the two basic yet complex themes of reality and history set against the exclusive backdrop of Colombian history, it is also intended to show how the author reinscribes the myth of nationhood by decentering what Jean-François Lyotard terms the metanarratives of the West, while simultaneously demystifying the monolithic concept of national identity in this work.

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