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Author:   Juan Camilo Brigard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.750kg
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9781041135364

ISBN 10:   104113536
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   11 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A Nonviolent Approach to Colombian Cultural Violentology. 5 1.1. Autobiography as an Interface Between Aesthetics and Politics. 11 1.2. Violence and Nonviolence. 19 1.3. A Contextual Narratology of Contingency. 25 2. The Thrills of “Democratic Security”: Uribe Vélez’s No Lost Causes. 34 2.1. A Heterobiographical Presidential Memoir-Thriller 35 2.1.1. A Presidential Memoir-Thriller 35 2.1.2. The Thriller-like Emplotment of No Lost Causes. 40 2.1.3. Suspense, Talking Duels and a Polarized Reception. 47 2.1.4. Uribe’s Heterobiographical Voice: Hollywoodization as Suture and Neoliberal Synergy. 49 2.2. A Criollo Colonial Heritage: A Nuclear Family and a Neoliberal Colombia. 54 2.2.1. Screening Fear Through a Criollo Nuclear Family. 55 2.2.2. Ventriloquizing Collectivity in a Democracy of Absentees. 59 2.2.3. A Colombia Shaped by an Imperial Vision. 66 2.3. Pierced Nonviolence. 71 2.3.1. The State’s License to Kill 71 2.3.2. Pierced Nonviolence: Pacification. 78 2.3.3. First as Presidential Memoir-Thriller, then as Tragedy?. 81 3. Embodying a Mythical Realist Transfiguration: Berichá’s Tengo los pies en la cabeza. 87 3.1. A Mythical Realist Autoethnography. 88 3.1.1. Mythical Realism.. 89 3.1.2. A Transcultural Memoir 93 3.1.3. Myths: From the Origin of the World to the U’wa Present 98 3.1.4. Ethnographic Realism.. 99 3.1.5. A Mythical Realist Autoethnography. 102 3.2. Rearticulating Body-Politics and Political Bodies: Berichá’s Adoptive Families, the U’wa, and the National Imaginary. 105 3.2.1. From Evangelized Indigenous Woman to U’wa Author 109 3.2.2. From a Monocultural to a Multicultural Colombia. 113 3.2.3. An Anthropomorphized U’wa Collectivity. 119 3.3. Nonviolent Mythical Inflections of the Real 121 3.3.1. Mythical Realist Transfigurations of Violence. 123 3.3.2. Mythical Realist Nonviolence. 128 3.3.3. A Sense of Belonging in Rejection. 136 4. Ethnicization as Tragedy: Rudecindo Castro’s Calle caliente. 143 4.1. A Heterobiography in the Tragic Form.. 144 4.2. Narrating Afro-Diasporic Heritage. 164 4.2.1. A Lineage of Afrocolombian Matrifocal Families. 165 4.2.2. Dialogic Hetero-Self-Citation: Collectivization and Social Disintegration. 170 4.2.3. A Historically Indebted Colombia: Traditional Historiography Under Afrocolombian Eyes. 175 4.3. Tragic Nonviolence. 180 4.3.1. Tragic Nonviolence in Calle caliente. 183 4.3.2. A Skeptical Take on Tragedy as a Way of Conclusion. 189 5. Loca Mariquita’s Apprenticeship: Manuel Antonio Velandia’s De homosexual a marica sujeto de derechos. 197 5.1. An ‘Autobioethnography’ of Bildung. 197 5.1.1. A Bildung-Autobioethnography. 197 5.1.2. Affirmative and Disillusionment Bildungsromane: Personality Development, Responsibilization and Incorporation. 201 5.1.3. The Developmental Linearity of Velandia’s Life Story. 203 5.1.4. Velandia’s Apprenticeship. 205 5.2. From a Catholic Nuclear Family to a Marica Colombia. 210 5.2.1. From a Catholic Nuclear Family to a Marica Subject of Rights 210 5.2.2. From Catholic Missionary to LGBTQ+ Politician. 215 5.2.3. Narrative Strategies of a Minoritarian Hyperbolic-I 219 5.2.4. From a Catholic to a Queer Cosmopolitan Colombia. 223 5.3. Nonviolent Bildung. 227 5.3.1. Treating People as if They Were Trash. 227 5.3.2. Nonviolent Bildung: Queer Humor Facing Death Threats. 229 5.3.3. Towards a Self-Ironic Collective Memory?. 235 6. Seizing the Nonviolent Occasion. 241 6.1. A Multidirectional Reading of Political Identities. 242 6.2. Pragmatic and Literary Genres in Comparison. 252 6.3. Heterobiographical Narratives. 257 6.4. Intertwined Narrating Selves and Experiencing-Is: Retrojection, Liminality, Linear-Developmentalism.. 258 6.5. Families: Nuclear, Unipersonal, Extended, Adoptive. 262 6.6. Compositional Strategies of Individualized Collectivization: Polyphony, Hetero-Self-Citation, Dialogic Hetero-Self-Citation, Illeism, and Self-Citation. 265 6.7. Colombographies. 267 6.8. Violence: Crosshatched Processual and Physical Injury vs. Enmeshment within Processual Harm.. 272 6.9. Emplotting Nonviolence. 276 6.10. Beyond These Nonviolent Narratives: Routes for Future Research 279 9. Works Cited. 290 Index

Reviews

""Brigard's Emplotting Nonviolence is a seminal example of a study that is based in the discipline of literary and cultural studies but that very convincingly manages to come into dialogue with current debates in Peace and Conflict Studies and, more broadly, in the Social Sciences."" -Professor Stefan Peters, Chair of Peace Studies Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen and Director of the Colombo-German Peace Institute CAPAZ, Germany “Introducing the emplotment of ‘nonviolence’ as a cultural concept and structuring principle, it creatively defines the narrative conventions of each autobiography within the framework of literary genres rarely associated with life writing – the bildungsroman, the Cold War thriller, mythical realism, and classical tragedy. Emplotting Nonviolence masterfully demonstrates how a variety of distinct storytelling strategies can be applied to a hitherto narrowly defined genre, and how these plot devices are able to shape distinct narrative conceptions of nonviolent resistance.” -Prof. Ansgar Nünning, Chair of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies, Founding Director of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Germany “Emplotting Nonviolence highlights the ethical stakes of narrating violence, particularly in contexts of systemic harm and historical oppression. It interrogates how narratives can perpetuate or challenge dominant paradigms of violence, contributing significantly to the study of violence and non-violence by exposing their ethical and aesthetic dimensions and their implications for collective memory and identity.” -Professor Laura Quintana Porras, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia “Emplotting Nonviolence has the potential of being a trendsetting text for envisioning the way we study and approach Colombian cultural production in the post-agreement era. Juan Camilo Brigard has accomplished a text that thoroughly studies the construction of autobiographical texts highlighting their strategies for producing a nonviolent self. Furthermore, his text will potentially help us denaturalize claims of nonviolence, question strategies for justifying violent acts, and envision ourselves beyond a homogeneous ‘self’.” -Professor Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA ""In times of ongoing armed conflicts, this pioneering study brings important voices of nonviolence to the forefront. A stimulating and must-read book that offers new narratological insights from exceptional autobiographical texts, highlighting the conflict-solving potential of political (counter)narratives."" Doris Bachmann-Medick, Distinguished Research Fellow, International Graduate Centre for theStudy of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen, Germany

“Brigard's Emplotting Nonviolence is a seminal example for a study that is based in the discipline of literary and cultural studies but that very convincingly manages to come into dialogue with current debates in Peace and Conflict Studies and more broadly from Social Sciences.” -Professor Stefan Peters, Chair of Peace Studies Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen and Director of the Colombo-German Peace Institute CAPAZ, Germany “Introducing the emplotment of ‘nonviolence’ as a cultural concept and structuring principle, it creatively defines the narrative conventions of each autobiography within the framework of literary genres rarely associated with life writing – the bildungsroman, the Cold War thriller, mythical realism, and classical tragedy. Emplotting Nonviolence masterfully demonstrates how a variety of distinct storytelling strategies can be applied to a hitherto narrowly defined genre, and how these plot devices are able to shape distinct narrative conceptions of nonviolent resistance.” -Prof. Ansgar Nünning, Chair of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies, Founding Director of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Germany “Emplotting Nonviolence highlights the ethical stakes of narrating violence, particularly in contexts of systemic harm and historical oppression. It interrogates how narratives can perpetuate or challenge dominant paradigms of violence, contributing significantly to the study of violence and non-violence by exposing their ethical and aesthetic dimensions and their implications for collective memory and identity.” -Professor Laura Quintana Porras, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia “Emplotting Nonviolence has the potential of being a trendsetting text for envisioning the way we study and approach Colombian cultural production in the post-agreement era. Juan Camilo Brigard has accomplished a text that thoroughly studies the construction of autobiographical texts highlighting their strategies for producing a nonviolent self. Furthermore, his text will potentially help us denaturalize claims of nonviolence, question strategies for justifying violent acts, and envision ourselves beyond a homogeneous ‘self’.” -Professor Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA

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Juan Camilo Brigard is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. His research focuses on the intersection of Colombian and postcolonial literature, textual criticism, performance, and the politics of aesthetics.

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