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oai:doaj.org/article:9745621cc9ce4a308e4a1c34f5931923

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10.23692/iMex.16.2

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reaking Silences and Revealing Ghosts: Spectral Moments of Gendered Violence in Mexico

Abstract

This paper examines recent discourse around gender violence in social media protests in Mexico and a short story collection that anthologizes representations of gender violence in short stories by Mexican women authors as part of a greater genre of anti-feminicide cultural production. I focus my analysis on the hashtag campaigns #MiPrimerAcoso and #SiMeMatan and the microcuento collection ¡Basta! 100 mujeres en contra la violencia de género (Edición mexicana 2014) as ghostly discourses that create a space for breaking the silence of sexual and gendered violence. In these hashtags and micro short stories, I find spectral moments that allow for one to read the stories of gender violence that have been silenced through the discounting of women’s voices and of the recounting of violence against perpetrated against them. The ghostly discourse reveals many representations of gendered violence that resist patriarchal and stereotypical depictions and the haunting presence of those who have gone missing or been murdered for those who remain. These texts uncover the institutional and societal refusal to recognize victims as well as the impunity surrounding gender violence and feminicide. My analysis reveals how the effects of violence are depicted on female bodies in texts that are especially provocative from the perspective of ghostly discourse of gendered violence.

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