The Routledge handbook of violence in Latin American literature / Pablo Baisotti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Social and historical presentation / Pablo Baisotti -- Early representations of violence in Latin American literature. "Procuró sosegar y pacificar los indios": colonial violence in Latin America / M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo -- Discursive territories and epistemic violence in the Andean colonial indigenous literature / Nicolas Beauclair -- After Ercilla: violence and militarism in the colonial epic (1569-1610) / Javier de Navascués -- Women and war in the colonial Spanish American epic: gendered boundaries and erotic conquest / Sarissa Carneiro -- Spaces of violence in vice-royal chronicles: about Inca and Mexica-Tenochca narrative tradition / Jhonnatan Zavala, and Clementina Battcock -- Ideological violence in Latin American literature. Honor killing in 20th century Latin American fiction / Jay Corwin -- Frantz Fanon in his third world: violence and decolonization / Marcelo Sanhueza -- Inscriptions and configurations of violence: Italian immigration in Argentina / Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera -- History, violence and fiction in Alejo Carpentier's novel Reasons of state / Rodica Grigore -- Marxist-Leninist anti-capitalist success: muted violence in Yáñez's Edge of the storm, Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, and Galindo's Precipice / Nancy Ann Watanabe -- Martín Fierro as an integral part of the Peronist identity / Pablo Baisotti -- Postcolonial violence and indigeneity in the testimonio Andean lives: Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán / Ahmed Correa and Ignacio López-Calvo -- Popular violence and dictatorships in Latin American literature. Remembering violence: the narrative of '68 in Mexico / Stefano Tedeschi -- Dulce patria, a collection of poems about the Chilean dictatorship / Horacio Gutiérrez -- Pain is measured and detailed: representations of pain and guilt in the works of Alejandro Zambra and Carlos Gamerro / Macarena Areco -- From Nunca más to Ni una menos: testimony and fiction in contemporary Argentine narrative / Victoria García -- Rodolfo Walsh and Cuba: commitment and militancy in the shared origins of Latin American testimonio and third cinema / Alejandro Pedregal -- Violence and silence in the feminine narrative on the last civic-military dictactorship in Argentina: neither tricks of the weak nor resilience / Marcela Crespo Buiturón -- Representations of violence and peace in contemporary Central American narrative / Werner Mackenbach -- Counting and recounting stories and bodies: Alfredo Molano on violence and morality / Alejandro Sánchez Lopera -- Violence and responsibility: Ingrid Betancourt and no silence that does not end / Jeffrey Cedeño Mark -- New forms of violence in Latin American literature. Sons without a homeland: young migrants in contemporary literature / Elena Ritondale -- Solange Rodríguez Pappe, Mónica Ojeda and Denise Phé Funchal: femicide in contemporary fantastic literature / Emanuela Jossa -- Cien botellas en una pared and Blanco nocturno: the feminization and queering of representations of violencein Latin American novels of the [early] 21st century / Mariana Romo-Carmona -- Gender based violence in Latin-American neo crime fiction literature: The foreign girls by Sergio Olguín / Fabián Mossello -- Labor metamorphosis and violence against women in Sergio Chejfec's The dark / Matías Beverinotti -- Skin-deep: a psycho-ontological analysis of violence in Sergio Bizzio's Rabia / Alexander Torres -- Representations of violence in Mexico's theater / Hugo Salcedo Larios -- Postapocalyptic violence in 21st-century Mexican fiction / Aurelio Iván Guerra, and Gabriel Osuna Osuna -- "The past is forever unpredictable": aesthetic and political projections in contemporary Bolivian narrative / Magdalena González Almada -- Literary discourse and representations of violence: spaces and communities in Argentine narrative of the 21st century / Liliana Tozzi -- Three poems = Tres poemas / Jesús J. Barquet.

"This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the word, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the Pre-Colombian era, and how each has been seen and characterized in literature and other cultural mediums ever since"--