Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments

This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively in juridical and political realms. It asks how historical traumas inform debates around rights, truth, memory, remembrance, and forgetting, and how cultural products play a role in the interstices between rights, laws, and social justice. It also explores alternative perspectives, sources, and (micro)histories of human rights creation, evolution, and practice.

Format: Hardback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 27 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume delves into the intricate ways in which Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and other creative individuals seek to bring human rights situations to life, employing various forms of artistic expression. By performing, staging, and representing these situations, they challenge the dominant discursive narratives that often render justice an elusive or promised future. The volume raises crucial questions about the transmission of historical traumas, the roles of cultural products in navigating the intersections of rights, laws, and social justice, alternative perspectives and histories of human rights, and the interplay between human rights discourse and environmental justice in the context of global climate change, regional (neo)extractivism, megaprojects, and land thefts.

Drawing from a diverse range of disciplinary lenses, the chapters in this volume explore counter-hegemonic concepts of human rights, decolonial alternatives that resist oppression and market logic, and alternative discourses of human dignity and emancipation within the vast tapestry of the pluriverse. The authors employ a rich array of methodologies, including ethnography, historical analysis, literary criticism, and performance studies, to shed light on the complex dynamics and multifaceted challenges of enacting human rights in Colombia.

This volume serves as a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and activists engaged in the study of human rights, cultural production, and social justice. It offers insightful perspectives and innovative approaches that challenge the conventional narratives surrounding these topics and contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexities and nuances of human rights struggles in Latin America and beyond.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367722807