El cuerpo como territorio de violencia en la novela Rosario Tijeras de Jorge Franco

Abstract

Literature as a cultural product refracts socio-historical and political conjunctures. Therefore, the political and social crises that began in Latin America in the 20th century, which printed a new cartography of cities, is reflected in the Latin American narrative from the mid-twentieth century to contemporary literature. It is important to highlight that in this new social cartography emerge minorities and marginalized groups, which are being focused in order to show that they are characters crossed by surreptitious violence, which has accompanied the Colombian nation since the 40’s. A violence towards that different other, who becomes the target of a society that establishes borders in the face of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity. The goal of this paper is to show how in the novel Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco, published in 1999, the urban space – Medellín – represents a body territorialized by the violence of drug trafficking, and the protagonist – Rosario Tijeras – constitutes a body crossed by the violence of the hitman and the violence of the masculine.