Ancestral Fears and Everyday Horrors: Decoding the Narrative and Rhetorical Strategies Behind "Crónicas" of Violence in El Salvador

• Patricia Poblete Alday ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Finis Terrae

     Universidad Finis Terrae

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism / John S. Bak (ed. lit.), Bill Reynolds (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 978-0-367-35524-1, págs. 253-267
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter analyzes crónicas of contemporary violence in El Salvador, based on the hypothesis that these texts share narrative devices typical of classical horror literature. Specifically, the chapter examines how repetition, understood both at the semantic and syntactic levels, contributes to a story’s overall ominous effect. The impact of this repetition is magnified when the framework is no longer fictional, but referential. A reflection on literary journalism now becomes possible—in its scope and ethical responsibility, but also on the strategies used to study it from an academic viewpoint.