Colombia of the 20th century: the history of the country in the history of cinema

Colombian cinema, the peculiarities of its development and problems, cannot be separated from the tragic and painful pages of the history of Colombia in the 20th century. In the panorama of the national cinematography’s of Latin America, the cinema of Colombia has long been on the side lines, significantly yielding to Argentina and Mexico, and also constantly experiencing pressure on the film market from Hollywood. Unlike Colombian literature, which conquered the world with "magical realism", the cinema of this country gravitates towards social realism. He is characterized by a bold approach to the most difficult and painful topics, a constant interest in the realities of the country's life. In this regard, when analysing Colombian cinematography, the most productive is the expansion of the boundaries of research in the field of historical memory, an appeal to the problem of violence and overcoming the trauma of the past.

LOS ALEMANES COMO PERSONAJES LITERARIOS EN LA LITERATURA COLOMBIANA CONTEMPORÁNEA

This paper will analyze the image of Germans in Colombian literature from the 1970s to the present day. Although the Germans played an important role in the colonization of the Kingdom of New Granada since the 16th century, we detected a greater presence of this figures with a more decisive role in the novels, in the 19th and especially the 20th centuries. Mainly soldiers, exiles, Jews, emigrants and Nazis of German origin left their traces in the literature of the Latin American country. To carry out the analysis we will present and comment on five novels written in the last 40 years focusing on characters of German origin or where Germans as literary figures have an influence on the development of the narrative. Both texts with historical characters and those with fictional characters will be treated.

Representaciones, prácticas y sentidos en la literatura colombiana del siglo XX / Representations, Practices and Senses in the Colombian Literature of the 20th Century

ABSTRACTThis writing aims to describe the main statements that gravitated at the moment of analyzing the content of several literary works that described events of the 20th century in Colombia. This in order to recognize the representations, practices and senses of the society throughout the century. The article is orientated largely to answer to the possibility to put in common dialog the study of the historiographical current and its relationship with the literature.RESUMENEste escrito tiene como objetivo describir los principales enunciados que gravitaron a la hora de analizar el contenido de varias obras literarias que describían sucesos propios del siglo XX en Colombia. Esto con el fin de reconocer las representaciones, las prácticas y los sentidos de la sociedad a lo largo del siglo, así pues, el artículo está orientado en gran medida a responder a la posibilidad de poner en diálogo el estudio de la corriente historiográfica de la historia cultural y su relación con la literatura.

Laura Restrepo, la creación de un mundo novelístico

Resumen: Se examina la obra novelística de Laura Restrepo, desde suinicio en La isla de la pasión hasta su última obra, Delirio. Setoman en cuenta conceptos emanados de la crítica y la teoríafeminista, como patriarcado, la exclusión social, la mujerobjeto, el pacto con la madre, la ausencia del padre.Palabras clave: Literatura colombiana, novelística, críticaliteraria feminista, Laura RestrepoAbstract: The novels written by Laura Restrepo are examined, startingwith The Island of Passion to her latest work, Delirium.Concepts emanating from feminist criticism and theory, suchas patriarchy, social exclusion, woman as object, the pact withthe mother, the father’s absence, are taken into account.Key words: Colombian literature, novel, feminist literarycriticism, Laura Restrepo