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24 - Writing Violence

from Part III - Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

By
Jean Franco
Edited by
Ileana Rodríguez  and
Mónica Szurmuk
Ileana Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Mónica Szurmuk
Affiliation:
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Argentina
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Summary

The silencing of the outstanding Mexican poet and thinker Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in the seventeenth century and her spirited and angry response illustrate how "violence against women" involves not only physical violence but also mental abuse. The most extreme form of violence against women is rape followed by murder. Feminist thinkers have used the terms "feminicide" and "femicide" to refer to gender based violence that results in the death of women. Feminicide is linked to systematic discrimination and an assault on women's personhood and rights to life, liberty, security and dignity. The degradation of and attack on women as women and as activists reached extreme levels in the countries of the Southern Cone during the civil wars and dictatorships of the eighties and nineties. The wars and repressive regimes of the 1970s and 1980s challenged writers to move beyond the testimonial in order to reimagine the psychology of oppression and how abjection might be transformed into militancy.

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cosmopolitismDiamela EltitBoomitowomen's boomexperimental literary projectsLatin American literatureParody
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 410 - 417
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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