Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez

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32 - Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez

from Part IV - Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba ,

Patricia Ravelo Blancas and

Georgia Kromrei

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Ileana Rodríguez and

Mónica Szurmuk

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Ileana Rodríguez: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Mónica Szurmuk: Affiliation:
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Argentina

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Summary

From the mid-1990s until the present, local female artists have organized a broad range of events that include creative women from all over the world, who in turn lend visibility to and decry feminicide. Female artists from many disciplines have produced works that express their pain and solidarity with the communities that have suffered disappearances and assassinations of women. In 1993, the Feminist Committee 8 de Marzo, supported by artists, academics, and intellectuals, began to document what would soon be named feminicide, a category of violence that includes systematic misogyny. The representation of the city, Ciudad Juarez, as a crime scene has been reiterated in many literary, journalistic, and cinematic narratives. Feminicide literature is a form of antineoliberal militancy. Feminicide victims are the trophies in an open hunting season that includes guaranteed impunity for the perpetrators, who choose the bodies to be sacrificed according to their whim.

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Maya indigenous literature Maya languages Guatemalan Mayas Mesoamerican cultural matrix Maya women writers

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Information: The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 543 - 558

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781316050859.037 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2015

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