Hope, Faith, and Charity: Foundations for A (New) Nation in Soraya Juncal’s Jacinta y la violencia

• Autores: Juan Camilo Galeano Sánchez
• Localización: Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, ISSN-e 0123-4412, Nº. 40 (enero - junio), 2017, págs. 29-44
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this article I analyze Soraya Juncal’s Jacinta y la violencia and its arrangement of matters of class, race, and gender. I argue that it conveys a conservativepartisan idea, and I find that whereas it is feasible to link the novel to a Feminist aesthetics, it is really hard to go any further, politically wise, because the story is dedicated to perpetuate oppressive systems. I chose the Theological Virtues (Faith, Charity, and Hope) as deconstruction devices because it is not possible to trace intersectional matters in Jacinta y la violencia, without understanding them in a context of an utterly Catholicized nation that sees everything in essentialist ways.