Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Master's Theses Theses and Dissertations 2018 Teaching and Telling Difficult ories:St An Analysis of Colombian Narratives of Violence Paula Liliana Mantilla Blanco Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Mantilla Blanco, Paula Liliana, "Teaching and Telling Difficult Stories: An Analysis of Colombian Narratives of Violence" (2018). Master's Theses. 3749. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/3749 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2018 Paula Liliana Mantilla Blanco LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO TEACHING AND TELLING DIFFICULT STORIES: AN ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN NARRATIVES OF VIOLENCE A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM IN CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY STUDIES BY PAULA MANTILLA BLANCO CHICAGO, IL AUGUST 2018 Copyright by Paula Mantilla Blanco, 2018 All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES iv ABSTRACT v CHAPTER 1: OFFICIAL NARRATIVES IN COLOMBIAN TEXTBOOKS 1 Literature Review: Fitting the Past into a Textbook 1 Findings: Textbooks’ Take on Conflict and Identity 26 Discussion: Victimization, Normalization, and the Use of History 51 Textbook Analysis: Concluding Remarks 53 CHAPTER 2: PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT 55 Literature Review: Narrative and Memory in Colombia 55 Methods 81 Findings: Stories Told 82 Discussion: The Voice of Emotion 108 Narrative Inquiry: Concluding Remarks 110 CHAPTER 3: BETWEEN TEACHING AND TELLING.