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The regional literature that gives cultural identity and heritage differentiation to intermediate cities in Colombia is recognized and resignified by literary tourism. The objective of the reflection article is to characterize the opportunities and limitations of literary tourism as an alternative tourism product through provincial routes. The qualitative methodology was mediated by content analysis, based on a selection of 135 literary works that led to the selection of the works of three representative authors for the design of literary routes. The conclusion reiterates the opportunities of experiential literature for provincial cultural tourism by intertwining the most representative places of the territorial heritage with tours in the vital spaces of the authors or their characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the literary creation in the region of Santander is characterized by the positions and arguments between the promoters and opponents of a "santanderean literature". Following Schmidt-Welle's postulates on regional literature, the content analysis of interviews with creators and literary promoters, as well as the review and critique of documentary sources of Santander's literary inventories, the article characterizes the visibility that the santanderean writers have had, the regional determinisms that have fostered the "santanderean literature" inspired by the authors of the 20th century, as well as a dynamic internationalist evocation of the santanderean people and landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literary tourism is an emerging field of human geography and cultural history that rediscovers the most significant spaces in each territory through the narrative representations about them. Based on an investigation, the paper shows the results of source criticism and discourse analysis of two hundred literary works that focus on the territory of Santander (Colombia) during the first half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates that the construction of the imaginary of "Santanderness" is associated with a vast literary tradition and the creation of new identity and collective recreation spaces such as the Chicamocha National Park (Panachi). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of the victors' public investments and the editorial efforts of the defeated ones after the Thousand Days' War to present their history versions and reaffirm the importance of the processes of peace and national reconciliation. In order to do this, it is demonstrated the importance that the inclusion of some of these speeches and literary representations in textbooks had for elementary and advanced reading courses in local schools according to the official program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]