Violentologies

<em>Violentologies: Violence Identity and Ideology in Latina/o Literature</em> explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities or Latinidades from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as <em>violentología</em> which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence this book adapts the neologism violentology as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history life and culture in the U.S. and globally. <p/>Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities - Chicana/o Puerto Rican Cuban American Dominican American Salvadoran American Guatemalan American and various mixed-heritages and transversal hybridities throughout the world - Violentologies features multiple generations of Latinx combatants wartime non-combatants and peacetime civilians whose identities and ideologies extend through and also far beyond familiar Latinidades. Based on this discrepant archive <em>Violentologies</em> articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate contradictory and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies and corresponding negotiations of power or ideologies pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology and ultimately an anti-identitarian Post-Latina/o paradigm.<br>