A LITERARY-JOURNALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE COLOMBIAN CONFLICT BASED ON PUBLIC FIGURES PABLO ESCOBAR AND ÍNGRID BETANCOURT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHRONICLES BY JUAN JOSÉ HOYOS AND FELIPE RESTREPO POMBO

Authors

  • Jeovanny Moisés Benavides Bailón Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Keywords:

chronicle, narrative procedures, Colombian armed conflict, social reality

Abstract

Chronicles are literary journalistic reconstructions of events or characters. Their essential feature is that that they build up a text in which the use of narrative strategies gains relevance over information transmission issues. The Colombian armed conflict is analyzed in this context, and in the light of this genre. Throughout this armed process there have been cases and paradigmatic figures who have grabbed the world´s media attention. In this text we will refer to two of them: Pablo Escobar, a former mafia boss, and Íngrid Betancourt, a presidential candidate kidnapped in 2002. In order to narrate this type of stories we have resorted to texts by chroniclers Juan José Hoyos and Felipe Restrepo Pombo. In them the authors have made their mark on the stories to demystify these two characters and make sense of such a dissimilar and complex reality as that posed by the Colombian conflict.

Author Biography

Jeovanny Moisés Benavides Bailón, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Full time professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Manabí (Ecuator)

Published

2018-11-15

How to Cite

Benavides Bailón, J. M. (2018). A LITERARY-JOURNALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE COLOMBIAN CONFLICT BASED ON PUBLIC FIGURES PABLO ESCOBAR AND ÍNGRID BETANCOURT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHRONICLES BY JUAN JOSÉ HOYOS AND FELIPE RESTREPO POMBO. Journal of Research of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, (14), 1-26. Retrieved from //rihumso.unlam.edu.ar/index.php/humanidades/article/view/153

Issue

No. 14 (2018)

Section

Social Communication

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