From the ancestral rite to the modern rite. Around Leopardo al Sol by Laura Restrepo Cover Image

Del rito ancestral al rito moderno. En torno a Leopardo al sol de Laura Restrepo
From the ancestral rite to the modern rite. Around Leopardo al Sol by Laura Restrepo

Author(s): Adriana Sara Jastrzębska
Subject(s): Novel, Other Language Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: Laura Restrepo; Colombian Fiction; narco; ritual; violence;

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes an analysis of Laura Restrepo’s Leopardo al sol (1993), a novel that proposes a sociocultural interpretation of the impact of the illegal economies of drug trafficking on traditional society. By analyzing the ingredients of the convention and poetics narco in the text, we observe how the violence represented in Leopardo al sol takes the form of a particular syncretism of modern elements of a civilization of spectacle and archaic elements intrinsic to mentalities anchored in mythical and magical thinking.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 179-194
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Spanish