Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: An analysis is presented of an aesthetic trend in contemporary Central American narrative. Using the so-called forensic turn, several literary productions addressing, in their fictions, the exercise of violence in the recent past of Central America are studied with the purpose of constructing a truth based on the material evidence of these events. The documentary attitude of these fictions takes shape in a preeminence of documents and police files, rather than victim testimony, as an alternative way of revealing the violence and crimes perpetrated by those in power.
Source: LETRAS
DOI: 10.15359/rl.2-78.2
Author: Rónald Rivera Rivera
Institution: Universidad de Costa Rica
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412053182