Morales Hernández, Jesus Eduardo
(2022)
CONSPIRADORAS DE FRONTERA: REPRESENTACIONES DE LA VIOLENCIA EN ESCRITORAS CONTEMPORÁNEAS DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
My dissertation analyses how several women writers portray the damage inflicted by systemic violence, based on control methods such as biopolitics and gender-related restrictions. These are eight writers from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: Arminé Arjona, Elpidia García, Myrna Pastrana, Rosario Sanmiguel, Perla de la Rosa, Guadalupe de la Mora, Dolores Dorantes, and Susana Chávez Castillo. They comprise a generation of Conspiradoras, articulating critical perspectives on urban problems, while dismantling and delegitimizing the machista discourse. Their struggle for “interpretive power” in Ciudad Juarez attacks the stereotypes infecting the city's social imaginary. Following Jean Franco’s eponymous concept in Plotting Women, I foreground writers who employ linguistic subterfuges in their struggle, and confronting restrictive hegemonic discourses (such as patriarchy). I study the representational failures of mass media created by foreigners to reflect on how this obscure symbolic scenario is confronted by the aforementioned authors. Following Valencia and Massey, these authors denounce economic violence within the symbolic construction of space (Lefebvre, Harvey, Grosz) to determine how a hostile social space affects the region’s inhabitants. Scarry and Segato, help me to recapitulate the writers’ empathy when paying tribute to the victims as I reify their memory, their recovery strategies, and their rhetorical handling of pain, feminicide, and loss.
In Ciudad Juárez, women are frequently divested of their political agency. However, these authors defy these silencing and repressive methods by remaining active as voices of resistance.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Morales Hernández, Jesus Eduardo | jem267@pitt.edu | jem267 | |
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| Date: |
1 April 2022 |
| Defense Date: |
30 March 2022 |
| Approval Date: |
16 June 2022 |
| Submission Date: |
31 March 2022 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
335 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
gender violence Ciudad Juárez women writers border poetry narrative narrative activism femicide testimony feminism narcotrafic |
| Date Deposited: |
16 Jun 2022 22:11 |
| Last Modified: |
16 Jun 2022 22:11 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/42450 |
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