La vorágine: Impunity, Memory and Human Rights

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Published: Nov 10, 2020
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La vorágine, Human Rights, Rubber Plantations –Amazon, Colombian Literarure

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Alfredo Duplat
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Andrés Molina Ochoa
South Texas College

Abstract

Facing state institutions that neglected the prosecution of crimes against humanity, narrative fiction in Colombia is a privileged source to acknowledge those crimes. A notable example of this connection between impunity and narrative fiction is Rivera’s La vorágine (1924). The novel is not just a master narrative to denounce crimes against humanity but a fictional archive to fight against impunity. La vorágine fulfills a social function that echoes the human rights legal framework known as the right to the truth. This article bridges this type of narrative, which we call fictions of distrust and the right to the truth.

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Vol. 56 (2020)
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Author Biographies

Alfredo Duplat, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Alfredo Duplat is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He earned his PhD  in Latin American Literature at the University of Iowa, and his BA in Literature at Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. His field of research is modern Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on cultural debates and human rights. He is interested in the theory of narrative transculturation and different theoretical approaches which put greater weight on the social functions of the literary canon. His research projects focus on the intersections between political ideas, cultural debates, and cultural productions.

Andrés Molina Ochoa, South Texas College

Andrés Molina Ochoa is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at South Texas College where he has been a faculty member since 2016. Andrés completed his Ph. D in Philosophy at the State University of New York, in Binghamton. Andrés specializes in legal theory and transitional justice has co-edited a book on the Colombian Peace Process and has written papers in specialized journals.