Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- 29 Market and Nonconsumer Narratives
- 30 Per-verse Latin American Women Poets
- 31 Beyond the Book
- 32 Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
- 33 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I Women in Ancient America: The Indigenous World
- Part II Women Writers in Creole Societies: Nation Building Projects
- Part III Women Writers In-Between: Socialist, Modern, Developmentalists, and Liberal Democratic Ideals
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- 29 Market and Nonconsumer Narratives
- 30 Per-verse Latin American Women Poets
- 31 Beyond the Book
- 32 Literature about Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
- 33 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 543 - 558Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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