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Memoria del dolor, deconstrucción y reconstrucción del sujeto

Cuadernos de Filosofía Latinoamericana

Abstract

This reflection on the memory of pain is made based on the particular narrative and fictional proposal of the work La carroza de Bolívar (Bolivar's chariot) by the writer Evelio José Rosero Diago, intends to deconstruct the mythical subject, embodied in the apparent Latin American hero Simon Bolivar; from a reading different from the official ones, dramatic events occurred in southern Colombia during the nineteenth century are brought to the present: the Battle of Bomboná and the so-called Black Christmas. Likewise, the reconstruction of the collective subject is visible, from the ironic vision of thedescendants of the victims, highlighted in the Blacks and White's Carnival.