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
- 12 Women Writers in the Revolution
- 13 Revolutionary Insurgencies, Paradigmatic Cases
- 14 The Women of the Avant-Gardes
- 15 Dissident Cosmopolitanisms
- 16 Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito
- 17 Poetry-Fugue
- 18 Mexican Migrations
- 19 Displaced Selves
- 20 The View from Here
- 21 Women Writing in the Andes
- 22 Rebellion, Revision, and Renewal
- 23 Central American Women’s Literature
- 24 Writing Violence
- 25 New/Old Indigenous Paradigms in Maya Women’s Literary Production
- 26 Genres of the Real
- 27 Performances
- 28 Mothers and Children in Biopolitical Networks
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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
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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
- 12 Women Writers in the Revolution
- 13 Revolutionary Insurgencies, Paradigmatic Cases
- 14 The Women of the Avant-Gardes
- 15 Dissident Cosmopolitanisms
- 16 Boom,Realismo Mágico– Boom andBoomito
- 17 Poetry-Fugue
- 18 Mexican Migrations
- 19 Displaced Selves
- 20 The View from Here
- 21 Women Writing in the Andes
- 22 Rebellion, Revision, and Renewal
- 23 Central American Women’s Literature
- 24 Writing Violence
- 25 New/Old Indigenous Paradigms in Maya Women’s Literary Production
- 26 Genres of the Real
- 27 Performances
- 28 Mothers and Children in Biopolitical Networks
- Part IV Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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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- The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature , pp. 410 - 417Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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