The boundaries between horror and the uncanny in the representation of violence in Colombia

Authors

  • Ana Isabel Cajiao Nieto Universitat de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2020344339

Keywords:

Uncanny, Art, Violence, Horror, Colombia

Abstract

This article explores the boundary between horror and uncanny based on the essay Das Unheimliche, published by Sigmund Freud in 1919. The analysis is developed through certain images linked to the armed conflict in Colombia, produced by the artists Juan Manuel Echavarría and Juan David Ortiz, and the photojournalist Jesús Abad Colorado. The notions of reality and fiction, as well as the complex dilemmas relating to the aestheticisation of pain or the ambiguity between representing or concealing brutality, are the reference axes that serve as the basis on which wider issues linked to all representations of violence are addressed and a possible boundary between anxiety and horror is traced.

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Published

2020-07-17

How to Cite

Cajiao Nieto, A. I. (2020). The boundaries between horror and the uncanny in the representation of violence in Colombia. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (34), 295–312. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2020344339

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Received 2020-03-30
Accepted 2020-07-14
Published 2020-07-17