La representación de la violencia simbólica en las novelas Abraham entre bandidos y El fin del océano pacífico de Tomás González

Abstract

This research focused on analyzing the novels Abraham entre bandidos and El fin del océano pacífico by Tomás González using the concept of symbolic violence to explain and understand its content. The main objective was to analyze from three axes, cultural practices, family and territory, the representation of this type of violence in these two novels. Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics of the text was used as a methodological basis to understand the content and identify what the texts communicate. After a dialogic exercise between the two novels, three findings were obtained: the curtain of family tradition: strategies of reproduction of social structures and exercise of symbolic violence in the narrative of Tomás González; cultural strategies for the maintenance of social asymmetries in the narrative of Tomás González; and the representation of the territory as an active agent and means to exercise domination over the other in two novels by Tomás González. It was possible to conclude that within the novels there is a critical sense to the exercise of symbolic violence, as it evidences that the family plays a crucial role in the reproduction and perpetuation of norms and social roles throughout history; on the other hand, they suggest that both education and cultural traditions reinforce and legitimize the existing social structure through the knowledge and values imparted; and finally, the territory in the narrative of Tomás González is an intrinsic and dynamic element that influences the complex relationships between the characters and the characters themselves.