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MARÍA DEL ROSARIO ACOSTA LÓPEZ Assistant Professor, Philosophy Dept., DePaul University .

Abstract: Can we render audible the historical erasures and the institutional forms of oblivion that political power has imposed all over Latin America? This talk addresses this question through an engagement with the “historical” event known as the Matanza de las bananeras in Colombia—a paradigmatic case of historical oblivion. Tracing how the erasure of this case has been “recovered,” first in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and later in José Alejandro Restrepo’s art installation Musa Paradisíaca, the paper explores the aesthetics of memory and the 'grammars of listening' that literature and art can produce in order to resist the force of institutionally sanctioned oblivion.

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