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Memoria ficcional: contextos y voz narrativa en "Muy caribe esta" de Mario Escobar Velasquez

Escobar Villegas, Julia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522336352279308

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2018, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Spanish.
In his book Novela historica en Colombia, 1988-2008: entre la pompa y el fracaso (2009), Pablo Montoya Campuzano demonstrates that historical novels have enriched contemporary Colombian literature. Among those Colombian historical novels relating the Spanish conquest, there is Muy caribe esta (1999) by Mario Escobar Velasquez, which narrates the encounter between Spaniards and Caribs, a South American indigenous tribe, in the area of Uraba, located on the northern coast of Colombia, at the beginning of the 16th century. My research question consists on identifying the literary and historical value of this novel. To this aim, I examine the presence of anachronisms in the book, caused by the dialogue between the author's present and the remote past that he writes about. My study starts with the following premise: the main character, who incarnates the novel's narrative voice, is anachronistic because his point of view of the conflict that he witnesses and in which he participates does not coincide with his own era. My hypothesis states that the literary value of the novel is defined by its narrative verisimilitude and vitality, which are based on the confluence between the extensive documentary knowledge of the history it deals with and the deep empirical knowledge of the environment where it occurs, Uraba. On the other hand, its historical value is defined by the modern anthropological judgment offered by the narrative voice, since it reconsiders the past, proposing new perspectives on it. In this M.A. Thesis, I firstly contextualize Muy caribe esta within the group of works that the author wrote specifically on Uraba. Secondly, I analyze Muy caribe esta from the traditional historical novel’s perspective, presenting why it does not belong to this genre, since it does not respect the criteria. Thirdly, I analyze Muy caribe esta according to the perspective of Latin American’s new historical novel, showing to what extent it does respect the criteria, designated by Seymour Menton and Fernando Ainsa. Finally, I indicate “ficcional memory” as a denomination for the narrative strategy present in Muy caribe esta, since it encompasses all the distinctive features of the renewed Latin American historical fiction.
Patricia Valladares-Ruiz, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Andrés Pérez-Simón, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
66 p.
Latin American Literature
Latin Americas new historical novel; Colombian historical novel; Caribe; Uraba; Mario Escobar Velasquez; fictional memory

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  • Escobar Villegas, J. (2018). Memoria ficcional: contextos y voz narrativa en "Muy caribe esta" de Mario Escobar Velasquez [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522336352279308

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Escobar Villegas, Julia. Memoria ficcional: contextos y voz narrativa en "Muy caribe esta" de Mario Escobar Velasquez. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522336352279308.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Escobar Villegas, Julia. "Memoria ficcional: contextos y voz narrativa en "Muy caribe esta" de Mario Escobar Velasquez." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522336352279308

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