Why go to literature to recreate the configuration of forgiveness in the Colombian internal armed conflict

Abstract

Talking about post-agreement implies understanding that peace does not arise from the formal convention between actors in conflict, but, from the construction, from a society fragmented by pain, from the interaction and forgiveness between victims and victimizers. For this reason, forgiveness emerges as an essential element for the restructuring of civility, and one of the possible ways to achieve it is founded in literature, the ethical-political testimony that leaves an imprint on the event in the collective memory and is the propitious scenario for the encounter and affirmation of otherness and memory. With literature as a scenario, the question was asked: How is forgiveness configured from the literary genres within the internal armed conflict in Colombia (1948-2016)? question from which it gave place to the understanding of the configurations that have had the pardon from the literary genres in the development of the internal armed conflict. With forgiveness, conflict, narratives and literary genres as the predefined categories of research, a methodology based on the qualitative model was implemented, with a historical hermeneutic approach and application of the hermeneutical method, giving rise to a theoretical and reflexive construct of literature as a potential tool for the demise of society in post-agreement. Why go to literature to recreate the question? What is the origin of the Colombian internal armed conflict?