representation

‘Looking Glass Creatures’: Anti-Human Politics in Tenniel’s Alice

Ted Geier , University of California, Davis, USA

From Silly Fools to False Women. The Transgender Figure in the Antioquia Press, 1890-1980

Guillermo Correa Montoya, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

‘Dancing like a Black Man’. Rythm, Race, and Nation in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Emily Wamsley, Universidad de Manchester

Virgin, Angel, Flower and Debility: Paradigms of the Female Image in Colombian Literature atthe Endofthe 20th Century

Luz Hincapié hincapie.l@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) Abstract: The conduct manuals and leaflets that were written specifically for women and that proliferated in Colombia during the 19th century reveal the way women were educated and conditioned to follow a patriarchal model in their lives as daughters, girlfriends, wives and mothers. This article first looks at […]

Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon. Variations on the colonial/decolonial archive

Alejandro de Oto adeoto@gmail.com Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas- (CONICET)-, Argentina Abstract: This paper focuses in weaving a notion of archive with heterogeneous materiales gathered from different registers in Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon’s writings. In order to do that, special attention is given to the dimension of body, which is especially present […]

Imagining “Natural Paradise”. Representation and modernity in Puerto Gaitán, Meta

Sergio Ramírez seramirezdiaz@gmail.com Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: Puerto Gaitán municipality, in the department of Meta, has become important on the Colombian economic map. In this paper, I will show the formation of Puerto Gaitán in the last years, exploring changes in the modes of land exploitation, production and use, and the emergence of the […]

Visual assembly of black body: the case of New Grenade’s Corographic Commission

Beatriz Rodríguez bbalanta@smu.edu Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA Abstract: In this paper, I show that in the age of freedom and equality statements, the ethnographic images produced by Comisión Corográfica (a major geographic project in mid-nineteenth century Colombia) promotes and provides aesthetic tools that normalize, codify, and reify racial ideologies at a time in Colombian […]