Medellín's Complexity on the Horizon of Modernity (1930-1950): Tensions, imaginaries, Conflicts and Education. A reading of the city in the speech of Juan José Hoyos Naranjo

La complejidad de Medellín en el horizonte de la modernidad (1930-1950): tensiones, imaginarios, conflictos y educación. Una lectura de ciudad en el discurso de Juan José Hoyos Naranjo

It is considered to address the analysis of the chronicle The Last Death of Guayaquil (1984) of the journalist, researcher and writer Juan José Hoyos Naranjo, to relieve the proposal of temporal cut and make a critical reading of it from the perspective of complex thought, paying attention to the route traced by the author with whom this study deals and the resonances of that path in a historical context. This analysis will be developed around four axes: first, the representation of the city of Medellín as a central urban space, within the framework of the peasant exodus process that Colombia and the Department of Antioquia went through between 1930 and 1950. Second, the way in which This genre has been approached in Latin American literary and journalistic studies, which makes it possible to identify, in Hoyos's speech, formal procedures of the transitional moment of the early twentieth century (read 1930). A third axis is the considerations that unveil the epochal literary establishment —Juan José Hoyos seen as a writer of narrative journalism whose work focuses on the investigation of the city of Medellín from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century— and the location of the intellectual project and Hoyos scriptural in the Colombian journalism of the XXI century. Lastly, the validity of his texts around power relations, mechanisms of domination and forms of resistance.