Forensic Turn and Contemporary Central American Novel

Forensic Turn and Contemporary Central American Novel

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Main Author: Rivera Rivera, Rónald
Format: Online
Language:spa
eng
Published: Escuela de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2025
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21511
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spelling LETRAS215112025-07-05T22:19:24Z Forensic Turn and Contemporary Central American Novel Giro forense y novela centroamericana contemporánea Rivera Rivera, Rónald Rivera Rivera, Rónald forensic aesthetics police archive materiality non- fiction forensic turn Central American narrative estética forense archivo policial materialidad no ficción giro forense narrativa centroamericana An analysis is presented of an aesthetic trend in contemporary Central American narrative. Using the so-called forensic turn, several literary productions addressing, in their fictions, the exercise of violence in the recent past of Central America are studied with the purpose of constructing a truth based on the material evidence of these events. The documentary attitude of these fictions takes shape in a preeminence of documents and police files, rather than victim testimony, as an alternative way of revealing the violence and crimes perpetrated by those in power. Se analiza una tendencia estética en la narrativa centroamericana contemporánea. Mediante el llamado giro forense se estudian varias producciones literarias que tratan en sus ficciones el ejercicio de la violencia en el pasado reciente de Centroamérica, con el propósito de construir una verdad a partir de la evidencia material sobre estos hechos. La actitud documental de estas ficciones se concreta en una preeminencia del documento y el archivo policial, antes que en el testimonio de la víctima, como una forma alternativa de demostrar la violencia y los crímenes perpetrados desde el poder. Escuela de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2025-07-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip audio/mpeg audio/mpeg https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21511 10.15359/rl.2-78.2 LETRAS; No. 78 (2025): Letras. July-December; 39-57 LETRAS; Núm. 78 (2025): Letras. Julio-Diciembre; 39-57 2215-4094 1409-424X spa eng https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21511/33824 https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21511/33825 https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21511/33826 https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21511/33828 https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/letras/article/view/21511/33829 Derechos de autor 2025 LETRAS
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