Giro rural, memoria y conflicto armado en la novela colombiana del siglo XXI

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This thesis analyzes the recent and growing appearance of Colombian works that narrate the armed conflict set in rural settings, based on four novels from the 21st century: Evelio Rosero's Los Ejércitos, Pablo Montoya's Los Derrotados, Marcela Villegas' Camposanto and Juan Cárdenas' Elástico de Sombra. To study the above, the work is structured into seven chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on memory. In it, the history of the armed conflict and its rural dimension are reviewed, as well as the main theoretical references of collective memory. Finally, a tour of the relationship that Latin American cultural production has established with memory is made. In chapter 2, which has territory as its axis, it starts from the spatial turn that has taken place in the humanities, the discourses on the rural-urban dichotomy in Latin America and the influence of the deterritorialization-reterritorialization tension in Latin American literature of the 21st century, to conclude with an exposition of the recent rural turn through the analysis of three novels: Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive: A Novel, Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream and Lina Meruane's Rotten Fruit. In chapter 3, the rural turn in Colombian cultural production and its link with memory in the context of the armed conflict are specifically investigated, through a review of different artistic languages. Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 correspond to the detailed analyzes of the four novels in the corpus: Los Ejércitos, Los Derrotados, Camposanto and Elástico de Sombra, respectively. Finally, a section is included with the most significant conclusions of this work.