Reflections in dialogue with Manvscrito de vna corónica inconclvsa (2025) by Raúl Vallejo Corral, memory seeker trapped within a collective forgetfulness both within and beyond Ecuador.”
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resistance, (re)existence, restorative justice, decolonial voicesAbstract
The following reflections attempt to alter somewhat the traditional academic book review format; instead of writing about a text with an appropriate degree of distance or objectivity, I have chosen to combine an academic style with a personal letter written directly and intermittenly to Raúl Vallejo, author of Manvscrito de una corónica inconclvsa (2025), recipient of the 2024 Miguel Ríofrío National Book Award for the Short Novel. Hence, the reflections-in-dialogue that accompany Vallejo as he immerses himself in Ecuador’s national history and recovers a chorus of voices/testimonies heretofore lost in a collective state of forgetfulness or (un)memory. The hope is that the inclusion here of dialogue might help to highlight the corónica inconclvsa as a project permanently restorative and always attentive to the innumerable voices that still wait to be heard and recognized as protagonists and subjects of history.
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