From Tremor to Storytelling: Literature and Memory,

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Linograbado "El Retorno" de Paula Ocampo / Linocut artwork "El Retorno" by Paula Ocampo depicting a female figure merging with nature.
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Published: Sep 26, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53556/k05q9e21
Keywords:
Earthquake, Memory, Colombia, August 10, chaos, cracks, transformation

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Angela M González Echeverry
The University of Oklahoma

Abstract

A situation of calamity can be seen as a turning point between a before and an after; perhaps this is how communities in the affected areas in Colombia experienced the earthquake of August 10. However, after a tremor, we validate life and remember that humanity is above all vulnerable. Transformations are forged within chaos, and cracks should not merely be covered, closed, or erased. It is possible to observe through them and thus validate our own scars. Physical space transforms its material to contain the stories and voices of the before, during, and after of a territory that never stops trembling.

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Vol. 67 (2026): Women, Ecology, and Conflict. Knowledges, Agencies, and Worlds to Come
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Author Biography

Angela M González Echeverry, The University of Oklahoma

Ángela M González Echeverry is an Associate Professor of The University of Oklahoma (PACS). She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies, with a sub-specialization in the Humanities, from Arizona State University. She also earned an M.A. in Hispanic Literature from Ohio University and a Law degree from the University of Caldas in Manizales, Colombia. Over the past twenty years, she has taught and worked at universities in the United States, the Middle East, and Colombia. She has published several articles on Latin American literature and culture in peer-reviewed academic journals. She currently serves as Vice President of Asociación de Colombianistas and is the founder and co-director of a Literature and Gender research group in Colombia. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on cultural productions by and about Latin America with particular attention to literary and cultural representations of memory and identity. Her work examines gender as a social, cultural, and literary construct.