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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2022), Artlcles

Vol. 46 No. 1 (2022)

The antiquity of pain: agency, identity, and revenge in the elaboration of fiction as a reparation mechanism

Artlcles

https://doi.org/10.15517/rk.v46i1.50468

Published March 18, 2022

Fabián Perea⁺⁻

Fabián Perea

Universidad del Rosario. Bogotá, Colombia.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3490-2988

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Keywords

Narration
Discursivity
Desire
Beloved
Medea
Narración
discursividad
deseo
Beloved
Medea

How to Cite

Perea, F. (2022). The antiquity of pain: agency, identity, and revenge in the elaboration of fiction as a reparation mechanism. Káñina, 46(1), 69–96. https://doi.org/10.15517/rk.v46i1.50468

Abstract

By means of a narratological exercise established through the reading of Beloved and Medea, this article seeks to understand the mechanisms that form tragedy as a literary genre, to analyze how fiction could constitute a resource for symbolic reparation of the agency of systematically marginalized communities, by virtue of the use of revenge as a device of vindication.