Crónica y memoria: luchas socioambientales y testimonio de la infamia en Guerras del interior de Joseph Zárate.
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2020
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Este escrito reflexiona sobre los vínculos que crónica y memoria poseen: una posibilidad de testimoniar la época. Para demostrar este argumento, se analiza el libro de crónicas Guerras del interior (2018) de Joseph Zárate. Así, inicialmente, se ofrece un panorama conceptual sobre la capacidad para representar el presente que despliegan los textos narrativos de no ficción. Luego, con el fin de caracterizar este tipo de escritura, se desarrolla un recuento de los tres momentos más importantes del campo cultural de la crónica latinoamericana (la escritura modernista, el periodismo narrativo de los años sesenta y setenta, y la producción de crónica contemporánea). Finalmente, se detalla una interpretación textual y paratextual del libro. Por un lado, se demuestra cómo –a través de los temas, el modo de narrar y los detalles trabajados– estas crónicas narran los conflictos socioambientales desde la denuncia social. Por otro lado, mediante el abordaje de los epígrafes
This writing reflects on the links that chronicle and memory have: a possibility of witnessing the time. To demonstrate this argument, the chronicles book Guerras del Interior (2018) by Joseph Zárate, is analyzed. Thus, initially, a conceptual panorama is offered on the capacity to represent the present that non-fiction narrative texts display. Then, in order to characterize it, a retelling of the three most important moments in the cultural field of the Latin American chronicle is developed (modernist writing, narrative journalism of the sixties and seventies, and the production of contemporary chronicles). Finally, a textual and paratextual interpretation of the book is detailed. On the one hand, it is shown how–through the themes, the narrative mode and the worked details– these chronicles narrate the socio-environmental conflicts from the social denunciation. On the other hand, through the epigraphs and the epilogue that the book.
This writing reflects on the links that chronicle and memory have: a possibility of witnessing the time. To demonstrate this argument, the chronicles book Guerras del Interior (2018) by Joseph Zárate, is analyzed. Thus, initially, a conceptual panorama is offered on the capacity to represent the present that non-fiction narrative texts display. Then, in order to characterize it, a retelling of the three most important moments in the cultural field of the Latin American chronicle is developed (modernist writing, narrative journalism of the sixties and seventies, and the production of contemporary chronicles). Finally, a textual and paratextual interpretation of the book is detailed. On the one hand, it is shown how–through the themes, the narrative mode and the worked details– these chronicles narrate the socio-environmental conflicts from the social denunciation. On the other hand, through the epigraphs and the epilogue that the book.
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Crónica, Memoria, Testimonio, Joseph Zárate, Periodismo narrativo