“Written not to die”: Insurgent Memory Interview with María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo (May 17, 2024)

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Published: Feb 27, 2025
Issue: No. 60 (2025): Poligramas - Issue 60 - January/June 2025
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  María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo Investigador Independiente
  María de las Mercedes Ortiz Rodríguez Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
  Sol Anyela Muñoz Niño Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
Keywords
  • Memory
  • Insurgent
  • Escrito para no morir
Author Biographies

María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo, Investigador Independiente

Born in Cali, anthropologist from the National University of Colombia, social and political activist, former M-19 combatant. She is part of The Feminist Collective of Thought and Political Action, and is one of the founders of the National Network of Women Ex-Combatants of the Insurgency.
She has been dedicated to peacebuilding for 37 years. Her experience focuses on working with popular women, farmers and ex-combatants, to promote their participation and representation as decisive actors in peace.
In 1998 he won the Testimony award from the Ministry of Culture. With her book, Written to Not Die, she disputes a place for the memories of insurgent women in the narrative of the Colombian armed conflict. The book has six editions, one of them in English. He has published articles on the topics mentioned in national and international magazines.

María de las Mercedes Ortiz Rodríguez, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Professor at the School of Literary Studies of the Universidad del Valle. Anthropologist from the National University of Colombia, Master in Hispanic Literatures from The University of Washington (Seattle), United States. Doctor in Hispanic and Lusophone literatures, The University of Iowa (Iowa City, United States).

Sol Anyela Muñoz Niño, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Graduate in Literature and Master in Colombian and Latin American Literature from the Universidad del Valle. He works as a teacher at the School of Literary Studies of the same University where he teaches courses such as Seminars on Literary Theories and Methods, Essay Workshops, Afro-Latin American Literature and electives such as Contemporary Colombian Short Stories. Throughout her career she has projected her pedagogical and investigative emphases around the areas of literary theory, gender and decolonial studies, topics on which she has written articles such as “Rómulo Gallegos and the literary limits of a nation: Remota Montiel in Sobre la misma tierra (1944)” and “Subversive identities, difference and illness in four characters from the novel Del amor y otros demons, by Gabriel García Márquez.”

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Jaramillo, Darío. Darío Jaramillo Agudelo. Una antología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México, 2016. Web.

Mutis, Álvaro. Ilona llega con la lluvia. Alianza Editorial, 1986. Impreso.

Vásquez, M. Escrito para no morir. Bitácora de una militancia. Panamericana Formas e Impresos S.A., 2000. Impreso.

How to Cite
Vásquez Perdomo, M. E., Ortiz Rodríguez, M. de las M., & Muñoz Niño, S. A. (2025). “Written not to die”: Insurgent Memory: Interview with María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo (May 17, 2024). Poligramas, (60), e70114775. https://doi.org/10.25100/poligramas.v0i60.14775
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