Shaking Colombia’s Artistic Canon: Indigenous Psychoactive Brews as Aesthetic Practice in Juan Cárdenas’ Los estratos.
In Juan Cárdenas’ literature, writing is an experiment that tests the limits of social representation and the boundaries of academic disciplines. His 2013 novel Los estratos dismantles Colombia’s stratified society, where Indigenous and Black communities occupy the lowest strata, while capturing myt...
| Publicado en: | Revista de Estudios Hispánicos Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 475 - 499 |
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Washington University
jun2024
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