Topografía de un desnudo by Jorge Díaz: Violence, Bureaucracy and Power

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1517-106X/2025e68361

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This paper aims to analyze the representation of violence and its implications in the play Topografía de un desnudo by the Chilean playwright Jorge Díaz. It is proposed that a reading of this play from the theoretical approaches on violence of Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin allows to account for the action of bureaucracy as one of the main agents linked to the preservation of power through violent acts and in its relationship with police violence, which determine the central conflict of the play. From the study of the characters in Topografía de un desnudo, who embody this mechanism of bureaucracy, we seek to analyze the way in which Díaz represents the violence they carry out, revealing the way in which he denounces an action that both in its context and in the present has remained largely hidden.

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Fabián Leal Ulloa, Universidad de La Frontera Temuco, Chile

Fabián Leal Ulloa. Professor do Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Comunicação da Faculdade de Educação, Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidad de La Frontera, Chile. Mestre em Literatura Hispano-Americana Contemporânea pela Universidad Austral de Chile e doutorando em Literatura pela Universidad de Chile. A sua linha de investigação está ligada à autoficção, memória, violência e marginalidade na narrativa contemporânea, com particular interesse no subgénero do realismo sujo. É membro do Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Letras (CIILET) da Universidad de La Frontera e do corpo docente do Mestrado em Artes da mesma universidade.

Carolina Navarrete González, Universidad de La Frontera Temuco, Chile

Carolina Navarrete González. Doutora em Literatura. Profesora do Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Comunicação da Faculdade de Educação, Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade de La Frontera (UFRO), em Temuco, região de La Araucanía. Atualmente é Investigadora Principal do projeto FONDECYT REGULAR nº 1241591, intitulado “Poéticas elementales: subjetividades posthumanas en la narrativa de autoras contemporáneas (2008-2023)” graças ao apoio da Agência Nacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento (ANID). Membro do Corpo Docente e da Comissão Acadêmica do Mestrado em Artes, é também membro do Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Letras (CIILET) da UFRO.

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2025-06-24

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Vol. 27 No. 2 (2025)

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