Internal and External Retrospections: Method of Analysis for the Literary-Historical Discourse of Noticia de un secuestro (1996)

In this article, Mieke Bal’s theoretical concepts of internal and external retrospections will be used to extrapolate them in the historical-literary discourse of News of a Kidnapping. The purpose of this use is to unravel the details that are outside the text and that can be recognized through consultation of other sources. This distinction will be important, since it allows us to complement the information and assume a more global idea of the events of certain stages of the countries. In the case of this investigation, the primary focus will be on the last two decades of the 20th century in Colombia, characterized by terror, extortion and narcoterrorism that are part of a macrocriminal period.