A dead man’s trajectory: literature and violence in Julio Ortega’s Adiós Ayacucho
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v1i9p344-361Keywords:
Peruvian narrative, internal war in Peru, farce, civil rightsAbstract
Emerged from a magazine photograph, a shattered corpse acquires the survival of the language. It is an illegible corpse, which can only talk in death. Its parodic enunciation evades the complicities of representation that characterize the Peruvian internal war discourse. It is a puppet facing the unrepresentativeness of violence and it builds its itinerary as a clash with the power discourse, which includes anthropology, media, politics (literature and the critic are also compromised by an intellectual discourse as a means of domination). They promote oblivion as a solution for development. As a new Antigone, this corpse claims for its missing members: in the mass graves, in the memories and in the common sense. In this scenario, the afterlife changes its ministers and regions, and acquires a civil sense, of present and community invention.
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