Framing gender violence : representation and resistance in contemporary Peruvian and Mexican literature
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- For Framing Gender Violence, I have selected three novels regarding violence against women, two depicting Mexico of the last thirty years and one depicting Peru of the last forty. To begin, I analyze Roberto Bolaño's seminal 2666 (2008) since it is one of the first literary interventions in the Ciudad Juárez femicides that, additionally, illustrates the systemic nature not only of the femicides, but also of violence against women at large. I then transition to Temporada de huracanes (2017) by Fernanda Melchor, published fourteen years later, because of the novel's decentralization of violence and perspective. Lastly, I shift to the Peruvian context to examine La sangre de la aurora (2013) by Claudia Salazar Jiménez and the roles that women chose and were forced into during the Peruvian civil war from 1980-2000. Through the study of these novels, I aim to answer three key questions: how is violence against women represented in Latin American literature, specifically during the last twenty years in Mexico and Peru; how is female resistance portrayed and to what effect; and how is literature uniquely positioned to comprehend such violence more so than other mediums of expression?.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Pearce, Alexis Marie |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Briceño, Ximena |
| Thesis advisor | Saldívar, José David |
| Degree committee member | Briceño, Ximena |
| Degree committee member | Saldívar, José David |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alexis Marie Pearce. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/td908gx2536 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Alexis Marie Pearce
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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