Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature
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- ISBN 9780367520045
- Weight: 1106g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the world, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the pre-Colombian era, and how each has been seen and characterized in literature and other cultural mediums ever since.
This ambitious collection analyzes texts from some of the region's most tumultuous time periods, beginning with early violence that was predominately tribal and ideological in nature; to colonial and decolonial violence between colonizers and the native population; through to the political violence we have seen in the postmodern period, marked by dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, neoliberalism, as well as representations of violence caused by drug trafficking and migration.
The volume provides readers with literary examples from across the centuries, showing not only how widespread the violence has been, but crucially how it has shaped the region and evolved over time.
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.
