Cuando la Historia en mayúsculas marca constelaciones familiares

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_18586
dc.contributor.author	Gatzemeier Claudia
dc.title	Cuando la Historia en mayúsculas marca constelaciones familiares. Volver la vista atrás de Juan Gabriel Vásquez
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	es
dc.description.abstract	This article presents an analysis of the novel Volver la vista atrás by the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez (2020), a biography of the family of the Colombian director and documentary filmmaker Sergio Cabrera, transformed into fiction. It shows how historical events have shaped the family history, how traumatic experiences seem to be repeated in subsequent generations and how the protagonists try to overcome them. The analysis is carried out with reference to current publications from the fields of postmemory (Hirsch) and Critical Trauma Studies (Balaev).
dc.relation.ispartof	Library of Rassegna iberistica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2024-06-20
dc.dateAccepted	2024-03-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-834-7/cuando-la-historia-en-mayusculas-marca-constelacio/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-833-0/008
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8844
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9360
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-834-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-833-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Colombia
dc.subject	Family novel
dc.subject	Gabriel Vásquez
dc.subject	Intergenerational transmission
dc.subject	Trauma

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Cuando la Historia en mayúsculas marca constelaciones familiares

Volver la vista atrás de Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Claudia Gatzemeier Universität Leipzig, Deutschland

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This article presents an analysis of the novel Volver la vista atrás by the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez (2020), a biography of the family of the Colombian director and documentary filmmaker Sergio Cabrera, transformed into fiction. It shows how historical events have shaped the family history, how traumatic experiences seem to be repeated in subsequent generations and how the protagonists try to overcome them. The analysis is carried out with reference to current publications from the fields of postmemory (Hirsch) and Critical Trauma Studies (Balaev).

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June 20, 2024

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March 20, 2024

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Sept. 1, 2023

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978-88-6969-834-7

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Keywords: Gabriel Vásquez • Family novel • Trauma • Colombia • Intergenerational transmission

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