Literary and Visual Rememory at the 90th Anniversary of the Banana Massacre in Colombia

I am very excited to share a recently published article, “Literary and Visual Rememory at the 90th Anniversary of the Banana Massacre in Colombia,” in Zapruder Journal: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict.

This special edition of Volume 5 is dedicated to, “Food Fights: The Politics of Provisions in Global Perspective.” My co-author Dr. Annie Mendoza and I have been working on this piece for the past two years and we are delighted to share our work with you. We are pleased to join so many other wonderful articles in this special edition. Zapruder is an open access, peer-reviewed journal and therefore available online to everyone: http://zapruderworld.org/journal/archive/volume-5/

Also featuring works by two Colombian visual artists Liliana Angulo Cortés and Gonzalo Fuenmayor.

https://gonzalofuenmayor.com/home.html

From the editors:

The fourth article broadens the volume’s analytical and chronological frameworks by exploring the history of agricultural production, labor, and collective memory in twentieth century Colombia. In their essay on the “90th Anniversary of the Banana Massacre in Colombia,” Annie Mendoza and Tashima Thomas explore the history of “violence, erasure, racial politics, and class struggles of plantation workers throughout the Caribbean” by analyzing the ways in which twentieth century Colombian novelists and contemporary visual artists have engaged with the legacy of the massacre de las bananeras. By applying the literary concept of “rememory”—or “the struggle of reconciliation and remembering to traumatic experiences that are often tethered to a landscape, a place, or collective testimonial”—Mendoza and Thomas shed new light on a tragedy that has heretofore remained “officially suppressed by governing forces in Colombia.”