Violencia: Representaciones estéticas

If literature has occupied a privileged place among historical narratives over the centuries, it is largely due to its ability to bring sociocultural tensions into the realm of aesthetics. In Latin America, unfortunately, from the imposition of the European colonies to the rise of the national states, these tensions have shaped violence in all of its manifestations: slavery, repression, exclusion, social repression, exploitation of the working classes, drug trafficking or the more recent gender violence. Literature, which is always nourished by reality, has endowed us with these social representations, denouncing their existence. This book is the result of various efforts to study the way in which these themes have reached literature and have become an object of reflection or aesthetic inquiry for many Latin American writers. Violence. Aesthetic representations is a book in search of first definitions, which explores the different discursive modalities -from poetry to drama, passing through the memoirs or the testimony genre; it proposes methodologies of analysis and invites us to reread a literary corpus that has portrayed these quests for freedom, pacification and civility, with the purpose of beginning to articulate a response to the problems that still define the territories of Mexico and Latin America.