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2 Writing Violence
José Rabasa
The concept of writing violence points to the ways in which violence is written about and the ways writing itself exerts violence in colonial and postcolonial texts. The notion of the colonial/postcolonial divide bears less on a historical break traditionally marked by the wars of independence in Latin America than with the interrogation of the logic of colonialism. As such, the “postcolonial” dates back to the very earliest moments in the Spanish invasion of the Americas; it is coterminous with colonialism and the undoing of its civilizing claims. Colonialism and the justification of wars of conquest depend on the articulation of moral, religious, and epistemological grounds. If religion and morality are quite apparent in the denunciation of idolatry,