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  • Lucy Bell Sapienza, Università di Roma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1594-378X/9293

Abstract

This article offers a re-reading of Selva Almada’s Chicas muertas (2014) from a perspective that has been overlooked across most of the critical corpus on the work: the political context in which the three feminicides investigated by the author in the narrative took place, that of the transition to democracy in Argentina in the 1980s. The following two questions are addressed: How does Selva Almada problematize the discourse of democracy that prevails in the post-dictatorship Argentinean period in which the text is set? And how do the content and form of her narrative (the theme of feminicide and the process of writing-investigation) point towards alternative political forms to Western “liberal democracy? Through an analysis of Selva Almada’s narrative in dialogue with the decolonial feminist theories of Rita Segato, María Lugones, Breny Mendoza, Sara Ahmed and Mario Blaser among others, we read Chicas muertas as part of a growing wave of feminist literature that plots for “a different transition” (Mendoza 2009).

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2024-05-30

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