Summary:

From very different narrative styles and genres, Gloria Susana Esquivel’s “¡Dinamita! Mujeres rebeldes en la Colombia del siglo XX” ("Dynamite! Rebel Women in 20th-Century Colombia") and Juliana Borrero’s “Las Extraterrestres” ("The Extraterrestrials") enable the advent of the Freudian uncanny in their narrative strategies. They present the uncanny in relation to the treatment of women in Colombian society in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Both authors critically and dialogically articulate extreme events of gender violence in Colombian history using rhetorical and aesthetic-political language. "Dynamite!" narrates from a biographical perspective, although not exhaustively, but using different archives, the work and lives of fourteen twentieth-century Colombian women who transgressed the social marginalization and silence that society and culture imposed on them. For its part, "Las extraterrestres" is a short novel that denounces gender violence almost a hundred years later, written in a poetic, discontinuous, and fragmented narrative, a violence that has acquired the genesis of a myth.

Key words: Colombian literature | trauma | women biography | fiction | archival turn