Escenarios distópicos en la literatura colombiana
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2019-03-26
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Universidad EAFIT
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La literatura colombiana no ha sido ajena a imaginar escenarios futuros; a conjeturar acerca de cómo el espacio geográfico de nuestras ciudades se transforma, producto de nuevos modelos de organización social y política; a predecir el destino de los colombianos de los años o siglos venideros, a trazar la cartografía del país del mañana. Particularmente, en los primeros años del 2000 se publican dos novelas: El cerco de Bogotá (2003) de Santiago Gamboa e Iménez (2011) de Luis Noriega, que focalizan su atención en Bogotá y, desde propuestas genéricas diferentes, configuran universos posibles de valencia negativa. Los escenarios propuestos por estos dos autores, así como las relaciones con el poder, la ciencia y la literatura misma, son algunos de los motivos temáticos que se analizan en este trabajo.
Colombian literature has not been alien to imagining future scenarios, to conjecture how the geographical space of our cities is transformed into new forms as a result of new social and political organization models, to predicting the destiny of Colombians in the centuries to come and to mapping the country of tomorrow. Two particular novels were published in the early 2000’s, El cerco de Bogotá (2003) by Santiago Gamboa, and Iménez (2011) by Luis Noriega, which focus on Bogota and shape, from different genres, possible universes of negative valence. This paper aims to analyze the scenarios proposed in these two works as well as a variety of thematic motifs, including power structures, science, and literature itself.
Colombian literature has not been alien to imagining future scenarios, to conjecture how the geographical space of our cities is transformed into new forms as a result of new social and political organization models, to predicting the destiny of Colombians in the centuries to come and to mapping the country of tomorrow. Two particular novels were published in the early 2000’s, El cerco de Bogotá (2003) by Santiago Gamboa, and Iménez (2011) by Luis Noriega, which focus on Bogota and shape, from different genres, possible universes of negative valence. This paper aims to analyze the scenarios proposed in these two works as well as a variety of thematic motifs, including power structures, science, and literature itself.