Violencia ecológico-ambiental y modernización económica en Colombia: Una mirada a libro de signos (1930) de león de greiff

Taking as a starting point the modernizing dynamics adopted by Colombia between 1920 and 1940, this work carries out an ecocritical reading, that is, a reading attentive to the relationships between literature and the natural world, of some of the poems contained in León de Greiff’s Libro de signos (1930). As we will show, a reading of this kind would give us the possibility of atomizing the almost always anthropocentric conception that we’ve had in the country on the phenomenon of violence. This, in turn, would allow us to inscribe the topic of ecological and environmental violence in the broad spectrum of successive violences that the country has experienced throughout its republican history.