El espacio espectral: violencia bipartidista del siglo XX en Colombia y despojo territorial en Las hijas de Gracia (1951) de Magda Moreno

The purpose of this research is to examine, within the context of bipartisan violence in early twentieth-century Colombia, the way in which discourses, nature, and space become spectral agencies that haunt the characters and anticipate events in the novel Las hijas de Gracia (The Daughters of Grace) by Colombian writer Magda Moreno Ceballos (1900–1954). To do so, we turn to works that propose spectrality in an applied way, starting with Jacques Derrida’s “The Specters of Marx.” Magda Moreno published two novels in which she critically observes the situation of bipartisan violence in the country. As an Hispanic American woman writer, she describes a reality in which her sensitivity toward women and nature proposes an esthetic and poetic framework that, in contrast to violence and dispossession, gives rise to forms of siege that result in what we could call “spectral spaces.”.