Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the Us-Mexico Border

ISBN-13: 9781138482173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 196 str.

Nuala Finnegan

Opis

Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US Mexican Border scrutinizes the range of cultural responses about Ciudad Juárez’s feminicidal wave to explore how art, performance, poetry, film, fiction and music engage with the violence and trauma.

Spis treści

Introduction: No nos cabe tanta muerte [Unbearable Deaths] Chapter One: Framing Feminicidio: The Spectral Politics of Death in Ciudad Juárez Chapter Two: Sacrificial Screams: Excess in Àlex Rigola’s Stage Adaptation of 2666 Chapter Three: Remember Them: Ethics and Witnessing in Artistic Responses to Feminicide Chapter Four: Resilience and Renewal in Documentary Film about Feminicidio in Ciudad Juárez Chapter Five: Toward an Activist Poetics in Fiction about Feminicidio in Ciudad Juárez Conclusion: Notes Towards the Possible, Appendix