Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature

Pablo Baisotti received his PhD in Politics, Institutions and History from the University of Bologna School of Political Science in 2015. Before that he received an MPhil in International Relations in Europe-Latin America from the University of Bologna in 2008 and an MA in Law and Economic Integration from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Salvador in 2007. He received his Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Salvador in 2004. He was Fellow Researcher at Sun Yat-sen University in China and full-time Research Fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center, University of Costa Rica. He is currently Associate External Researcher at the University of Brasilia (Department of Latin American Studies). He has published and edited more than 20 books.

• Introduction: Social and historical presentationPablo BaisottiSECTION I: Early representations of violence in Latin American LiteratureCHAPTER 1"Procuró sosegar y pacificar los indios": Colonial Violence in Latin America M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo CHAPTER 2Discursive territories and epistemic violence in the Andean colonial indigenous literatureNicolas BeauclairCHAPTER 3After Ercilla: violence and militarism in the colonial epic (1569-1610)Javier de Navascués CHAPTER 4Women and War in the Colonial Spanish American Epic: Gendered Boundaries and Erotic Conquest Sarissa CarneiroCHAPTER 5Spaces of Violence in Vice-royal Chronicles: about Inca and Mexica-Tenochca Narrative TraditionJhonnatan Zavala, and Clementina BattcockSECTION II: Ideological Violence in Latin American LiteratureCHAPTER 6Honor Killing in 20th Century Latin American FictionJay CorwinCHAPTER 7Frantz Fanon in his Third World: Violence and DecolonizationMarcelo SanhuezaCHAPTER 8Inscriptions and configurations of violence. Italian immigration in ArgentinaFernanda Elisa Bravo HerreraCHAPTER 9History, Violence and Fiction in Alejo Carpentier’s Novel Reasons of State Rodica GrigoreChapter 10Marxist-Leninist Anti-Capitalist Success: Muted Violence in Yáñez’s Edge of the Storm, Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, and Galindo’s PrecipiceNancy Ann WatanabeCHAPTER 11Martín Fierro as an integral part of the Peronist identityPablo BaisottiCHAPTER 12Postcolonial violence and indigeneity in the testimonio Andean Lives. Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe HuamánAhmed Correa and Ignacio López-CalvoSECTION III: Popular Violence and Dictatorships in Latin American LiteratureCHAPTER 13Remembering Violence: The Narrative of '68 in Mexico Stefano TedeschiCHAPTER 14Dulce patria, a collection of poems about the Chilean dictatorshipHoracio GutiérrezCHAPTER 15Pain is measured and detailed: representations of pain and guilt in the works of Alejandro Zambra and Carlos GamerroMacarena ArecoCHAPTER 16From Nunca más to Ni una menos. Testimony and fiction in contemporary Argentine narrative Victoria GarcíaCHAPTER 17Rodolfo Walsh and Cuba: Commitment and Militancy in the Shared Origins of Latin American Testimonio and Third CinemaAlejandro PedregalCHAPTER 18Violence and silence in the feminine narrative on the last civic-military dictactorship in Argentina: neither tricks of the weak nor resilienceMarcela Crespo BuiturónCHAPTER 19Representations of Violence and Peace in Contemporary Central American NarrativeWerner MackenbachCHAPTER 20Counting and recounting stories and bodies: Alfredo Molano on violence and moralityAlejandro Sánchez LoperaCHAPTER 21Violence and Responsibility: Ingrid Betancourt and No Silence That Does Not EndJeffrey Cedeño MarkSECTION IV: New forms of violence in Latin American LiteratureCHAPTER 22Sons without a homeland. Young migrants in contemporary literatureElena RitondaleCHAPTER 23Solange Rodríguez Pappe, Mónica Ojeda and Denise Phé Funchal: femicide in contemporary fantastic literatureEmanuela JossaCHAPTER 24Cien botellas en una pared and Blanco nocturno: The Feminization and Queering of Representations of Violence in Latin American Novels of the [early] 21st CenturyMariana Romo-CarmonaCHAPTER 25Gender based Violence in Latin-American Neo Crime Fiction Literature. The Foreign Girls by Sergio OlguínFabián Mossello CHAPTER 26Labor Metamorphosis and Violence against Women in Sergio Chejfec’s The DarkMatías BeverinottiCHAPTER 27Skin-Deep: A Psycho-Ontological Analysis of Violence in Sergio Bizzio’s Rabia Alexander TorresCHAPTER 28Representations of violence in Mexico's theaterHugo Salcedo LariosCHAPTER 29Postapocalyptic Violence in 21st-century Mexican fictionAurelio Iván Guerra, and Gabriel Osuna OsunaCHAPTER 30"The past is forever unpredictable": aesthetic and political projections in contemporary Bolivian narrative Magdalena González AlmadaCHAPTER 31Literary Discourse and Representations of Violence. Spaces and Communities in Argentine Narrative of the 21st centuryLiliana TozziChapter 32Three poems / Tres poemasJesús J. Barquet