LIVES OF BLOOD: Women in the Mexican crime narrative

With a corpus of novels, short stories and chronicles published, in large part, between 2010 and 2016, and whose foundations are traced from a brutal and barbaric Mexico, in Vidas de sangre we will try to understand how the background and effects of the current violence on women's daily lives are narrated; to study what these texts say about Mexican society and gender relations among individuals; to observe how they express and interpret the permanence and intensification of the “models” of the feminine; and also to highlight how they reveal that the violence experienced and its multiple profiles disturb and displace what would be expected, in normative practice, of the feminine.

For this reason, it seems appropriate to identify, describe and examine various representations of women in the violence of ultra-contemporary Mexico through detective literature, and more precisely with the support of a production that we will call “crime stories”, which range from fiction to investigative journalism.