For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism--above all, the works of Gabriel Garc a M rquez--where ghosts told stories about the country's violent past and warned against a similarly gruesome future.
Decades later, the story of violence in Colombia is no less horrific, but the critical resources of magical realism are depleted.
In their wake comes spectral realism.
Juliana Mart nez argues that recent Colombian novelists, filmmake.
University Of Texas Press Haunting without ghosts, hardcover/juliana martínez
