Abstract

BONANO, Mariana. Non-fiction and Representation of Gender Violence. The Cases of Femicides in Chicas muertas, by Selva Almada. Latinoamérica [online]. 2023, n.76, pp.145-170.  Epub Mar 17, 2023. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2023.76.57550.

Among the non-fiction discourses deployed in particular by women writers, those that, from a gender perspective, aim to make visible a problem that has historically plagued women and sexual dissidence in general have gained momentum in the last decade: the violence exerted on the body by gender issues. This proposal aims to examine the non-fiction work Chicas muertas, by the Argentine writer Selva Almada, which delves into three unpunished femicides that occurred in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos in the 1980s, when the country had just returned to democracy. We start from the premise that Almada’s story does not stand as an investigation into the crimes of adolescent girls, but as an inquiry in which the gaze of the narrator self is identified with a female subjectivity that calls into question the real instituted as a present society, product of a heteropatriarchal order.

Keywords : Selva Almada; Non Fiction; Gender Violence; Femicide.