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Escritos
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MOLANO OSORIO, Ingrid Vanessa. Cardinal signs, by Libia Posada and In the arms of the river, by Marbel Sandoval: cartographic narratives on the bodies of forced displacement. Escritos - Fac. Filos. Let. Univ. Pontif. Bolivar. [online]. 2022, vol.30, n.64, pp.25-40. Epub Sep 20, 2022. ISSN 0120-1263. https://doi.org/10.18566/escr.v30n64.a02.
The body as an object of the violence generated in the framework of the Colombian armed conflict occupies a central place in different works of art and literature in the country. In various cases, such centrality is due to the commitment of the authors to resignify the occurrence of massacres, kidnappings, disappearances or forced displacement, which involve or fall on the bodies of the victims. Such is the case of the works analyzed comparatively in this article: the installation Signos cardinales (or Cardinal signs) by Libia Posada and the novel En el brazo del río (or In the arms of the river) by Marbel Sandoval. Both of these works converge in the resignification of the body in the context of forced displacement. Among the objectives, it seeks to define the way in which a cartographic narrative is configured in the works. It is also intended to reflect on the relationship between the body and forced displacement: internal and cross-border. The analysis proposed here revolves around the concept of cartographic narrative, which will be approached from, on the one hand, Ítalo Calvino, who defines cartography as a space-time union articulated in the idea of itinerary; and on the other, by Michel de Certeau, since he considers the narrative structures, implicit in cartography, as a spatial syntax, that is, a notion that allows us to address the representation of forced displacement as a symbolic delimitation of reordering itineraries of space.
Keywords : Body; Space; Narrative; Cartography; Resignification; Signos cardinales; En el brazo del río; Libia Posada; Marbel Sandoval; Forced displacement.
