145 - Ingrid Rojas Contreras: Literatura, Curanderos, Emigrar y más
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What inspired Ingrid Rojas Contreras to become a writer?
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How did Ingrid's migration experience shape her identity?
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What role do curanderos play in Ingrid's family history?
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Welcome to this episode of Bibliotequeando. This is your host, Ricardo Lugo, as always, at Bibliotequeando en las Redes. Today I bring you this conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras, which will be in audio version on the different platforms of the podcast. On YouTube it will be in video version. You can get the link both in the description of the podcast and in the internal biography. But Ingrid, we have discussed her. In this podcast, I summarized her first novel, La Fruta del Borrachero, which told the story of this family in the midst of the conflicts of Colombia in the 80s, 90s, guerrilla, paramilitaries, of course, the drug trafficking, Pablo Escobar. Something that she lived and that's why she ends up in the United States eventually.
And we will talk about that with her, but trying to connect her with her ancestors, with her history, the history of Latin America, which is very complicated. She writes her second work, The Man Who Moved the Clouds, which is a work named after Pulitzer. It challenges the concepts of political identities, it challenges the concepts of national identities. We will talk about her experience with amnesia, her family history, her journey as an immigrant and, of course, the books, the writing as such, her creative process.
How does amnesia influence Ingrid's writing and perspective?
So, without much more introduction, here we have Ingrid Rojas Contreras. Well, Ingrid, thank you so much for coming to the podcast. Here a lot of people already know your work, because as I mentioned, I summarized your book, The Fruit of the Drunkard, about a year and a half ago. I wanted you to tell people a little bit, if we're going to start without amnesty in that aspect. You had a very strong experience in your migration process, like all migration processes, I think they are all in their own style. But I want you to try to connect that with how Ingrid becomes a writer. At what point does she decide, I'm going to write and tell her story to a certain extent.
Sí, muchas gracias por la invitación. Muy contenta de estar contigo acá. Pues mi familia y yo nos fuimos de Bogotá en los 90 cuando yo tenía 14 años. Y estábamos tratando de huir de una serie de eventos que nos pasaron.
What themes are explored in 'El Hombre que movía las nubes'?
A mi papá lo secuestraron y también lo dejaron ir como en una... en una de esas revuelcas de esas historias que uno dice, eso es inventado, pero cuando a él se lo tomó la guerrilla, lo tuvieron una noche, y al siguiente día lo llevaron a conocer como al comandante de la guerrilla, y en el momento en que mi papá entró en ese cuarto, se dio cuenta que el comandante de la guerrilla era un amigo de él de primaria, y entonces los dos se...
Latin America.
Yes, yes. It's like when you say that sometimes what happens in reality is that you can't improve with fiction because it's already more surprising than what you can imagine. And my sister and I also had a kidnapping attack. And as a family, we were feeling that we were very affected by the violence. And they called us to the house all the time. And then, at that moment, we decided... We felt the violence very close. We decided to leave and we went to Venezuela. I think that that moment of going to Venezuela was for me like the first... La primera instancia en que yo pensé en la escritura. Porque antes me había gustado mucho, obviamente, leer los libros, todo eso. Pero cuando fuimos a Venezuela, una de las cosas que mis papás nos dijeron fue que no fuéramos a contarle a nadie que estábamos huyendo de la violencia.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired Ingrid Rojas Contreras to become a writer?
0:00–0:24
2
How did Ingrid's migration experience shape her identity?
0:24–0:42
3
What role do curanderos play in Ingrid's family history?
0:42–1:47
4
How does amnesia influence Ingrid's writing and perspective?
1:47–2:51
5
What themes are explored in 'El Hombre que movía las nubes'?
2:51–4:37
6
How does Ingrid define magical realism in her work?
4:37–6:16
7
What challenges does Ingrid face as a Colombian author in the U.S.?
6:16–7:26
8
How does Ingrid view the representation of Latin American identity?
7:26–49:35
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