Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as violentolog a, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence, this book adapts the neologism "violentology"...