Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production

Name: Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural ProductionEmbodied Enactments\nAuthor(s): Carlos Gardeazbal Bravo, Kevin G. Guerrieri\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367722807, 978-0367722807\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enactto perform, to stage, to representhuman rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms in which justice often remains an illusory or promised future. \n\nIn order to probe how cultural production embodies the tensions between the abstract universality of human rights and the materiality of violations on individual human bodies and on determined groups, the volume asks the following questions:\n\nHow does the transmission of historical traumas of Colombias past, through human rights narratives in various forms, inform the .