Urban Literature in Colombia. Keys to Understanding the Cultural Transformations in the Country

In thisstudy, we believe thatliterature provides enough cluesto understand the culturaltransformations of our country.The representations ofsensitivity and imaginaries of Colombian urban novels offer lines of sense to make a cultural sketch of the transformations beginning early in the XXI century....

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Autor Principal: Van der Linde, Carlos-Germán
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Español (Spanish)
Publicado: Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia 2011
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11634/24453
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Sumario:In thisstudy, we believe thatliterature provides enough cluesto understand the culturaltransformations of our country.The representations ofsensitivity and imaginaries of Colombian urban novels offer lines of sense to make a cultural sketch of the transformations beginning early in the XXI century. The mythical and baroque emphasis of García Márquez’s magic realism has transmuted to a more urban, minimalist and hyperrealistic tone.Despite the change,the final balance leadsto a similar output: fallen leaves, a dysphonia, a trap. This feeling of hopelessness and uprooting is repetitive in the recent novel. Insistence thatis finally representing the following cultural imaginary: Cancellation of the vital impulse (erotic) at the hands of dysphoric drive (Thanatos).