%0 Journal Article
%T War in Colombia testimonial literature: between memory, culture, violence and literature
%A Jorge Eduardo Su¨¢rez G¨®mez
%J Universitas Human¨ªstica
%D 2011
%I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
%X Colombia may be characterized as a society ruled over by ¡°a routinization of war and oblivion¡±. When memories about violent events succeed in articulate themselves and transcend the private space, they are not necessarily incorporated to national memory through ¡°memory policies¡± in transitional processes. These memories are ¡°deposited¡± rather than discussed. Testimonial literature is one of those ¡°deposits¡±. There are times when certain topics, witnesses, authors and narrative treatments attain an unexpected relevance. Such a relevance follows national factors, like the dynamics of conflict and society in Colombia and abroad, such as a ¡°turn to past¡±. When making a survey across the development of the testimonial genre from mid-20th century Violence up to our times, the gravitation of several cultures of memory is made evident in a society where oblivion appears to prevail.
%K Violence in Colombia
%K memory
%K literature
%K testimonials.
%U http://www.javeriana.edu.co/revistas/Facultad/sociales/humanistica/imagenes/revista/2d5_12Suarez.pdf