TY - JOUR AU - Mejía Suárez, Carlos Mario PY - 2022/10/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Tres narrativas sobre los guardianes de los archivos de la violencia. Abad Faciolince, Burgos Cantor y Gabriel Vásquez JF - A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos JA - A Contracorriente VL - 20 IS - 1 SE - Imaginarios culturales del presente en Colombia: nuevas perspectivas sobre la violencia en la producción cultural contemporánea DO - UR - https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/2241 SP - 14-39 AB - <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This article analyzes the interaction between literature and contemporary archives of serious violations to Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. To this end, we connect how current transitional justice measures in Colombia define archive with Jacques Derrida’s concepts around the archive in </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Archive Fever.</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In particular, we focus on the double definition that relates archive to an origin, and to a place of residence where an institution organizes the archive according to its notion of order. We focus on how three contemporary narratives (“Un poema en el bolsillo” by Héctor Abad Faciolince -2009-, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">La ceiba de la memoria</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Roberto Burgos Cantor -2007- y </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">La forma de las ruinas</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Juan Gabriel Vásquez - 2015) incorporate in the fabric of their story reflexions about words, images, and sounds safeguarded in embodiments of the archives of violence in Colombia. This essay studies how these narratives use written, visual, and phonic traces to define different visions of those guarding the archive, and how these different visions contend with each other.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> ER -