Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production

Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo, PhD, has taught Latin American culture and Spanish at Colby College and Rhodes College, where he is currently Visiting Assistant Professor. His research interests lie at the intersections of contemporary Latin American literature, human rights narratives, and the cultural politics of emotion, ecocriticism, and critical theory. He is the co-creator and co-editor of Colombia Syllabus / Primera línea académica, a crowdsourced digital repository on the 2021 protests in Colombia.Kevin G. Guerrieri is Professor of Spanish at the University of San Diego and holds a PhD from the University of California, Riverside. His research explores Latin American and Colombian literature, human rights, social justice education, and scholarship of engagement. He is author of the book Palabra, poder y nación: la novela moderna en Colombia de 1896 a 1927, and was president of the Asociación de Colombianistas (2013–2017).

• Introduction: Human rights subjects, microhistories, and assemblages in Colombian cultural productionCarlos Gardeazábal Bravo and Kevin G. GuerrieriPart I: Human rights narratives, micronarratives, and subjectivation1 Savage states: Literature and human rights in nineteenth-century ColombiaLuis Fernando Restrepo2 The deaths inscribed in us: art, memory, and public space in Doris SalcedoMiguel Rojas-Sotelo3 Towards emancipatory human rights narratives: Reflections on dissent, the state of siege, and embodiment in Daniel Ferreira’s Rebelión de los oficios inútilesCarlos Gardeázabal Bravo4 Toe, cabinet, and float: Literary subjectivations of victimhood facing the human rights discourseCarlos Mario Mejía SuárezPart II: land, environment, commodity: The human and the non-human5 The voids of memory: The reemergence of the Rubber Boom genocide in Embrace of the Serpent, by Ciro GuerraDaniel Coral Reyes6 Culture and resistance in Montes de María, Colombia: Ceferina Banquez’s songs and memories of warLigia S. Aldana7 Colombian graphic narratives of the Post-Acuerdo: Dialogic views of water and land as human rightsFelipe Gómez Gutiérrez8 Medicinal plants: Healing the relationships between human and non-humans in post-accord timesVanesa Giraldo Gartner and César Ernesto Abadía BarreroPart III: Structural, political, and gender-based violence and resistance9 Wounds and monsters: representations of gender-based violence and feminicide in the aftermath of the Colombian armed conflict Constanza López Baquero10 Rocking the Colombian casbah: Exposing lives of Colombian violence through musicEunice Rojas and Carlos A. García Pinilla11 Public secrets, private violence: A reading of Laura Restrepo’s Delirio Carolina SánchezPart IV: Transitional justice, grassroots activism, and problematizing victimhood12 Beyond the liberal-institutional paradigm: Grassroots human rights and transitional justice Narratives in Antígonas, tribunal de mujeresCherilyn Elston13 Visualizing human rights: The sanctuary of victims in the House of Memory of TumacoNicolás Rodríguez-Idárraga14 Peace as a trap: Dangerousness, due process, and reintegration in Mi capitán Fabián Sicachá by Flor Romero de NohraJuan Camilo Galeano Sánchez