Plantaciones de muerte: monocultivos, agrotóxicos y violencia en Donde nadie, de Carlos Villalobos
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article analyzes Donde nadie (2024), by Carlos Villalobos, as a contemporary form of necro-writing (Rivera, 2013); that is, as a practice that records the unequal administration of death, bodily harm, and environmental deterioration in contexts of high violence. The novel, through a prose of marked lyricism, gives voice to “ghosted” subjects who have suffered the effects of banana monoculture and the prolonged use of agrochemicals in the Costa Rican Caribbean. Therefore, Villalobos’s text is understood as a fictional and fragmentary testimony that archives both human and ecological disaster, while at the same time crafting an aesthetic and political response against the violence that permeates historically exploited territories and communities. Finally, the work is shown to denounce the continuity of the plantation regime and to reconfigure collective pain by appropriating the imposed silence and transforming it into critical memory, shared narrative, and a demand for justice
Source: Diálogos Revista Electrónica
Author: José Pablo Rojas González
Institution: Universidad de Costa Rica
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7161978113