Lloronas, Mothers and Ghosts: Necrobaroque in Mexico
This text presents several baroque perspectives on mourning mothers, from the snake-woman or Cihuacóatl, to mothers that organize themselves in face of current necropolitics. My objective is to reinterpret the figure of La Llorona from a necrobaroque point of view: denouncing how private power exerc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Interdisciplinaria de estudios de género de El Colegio de México |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx:article/120 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx/index.php/eg/article/view/120 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | necrobaroque abject bodies mourning work mother necrobarroco cuerpos abyectos trabajo de duelo madre |
| Sumario: | This text presents several baroque perspectives on mourning mothers, from the snake-woman or Cihuacóatl, to mothers that organize themselves in face of current necropolitics. My objective is to reinterpret the figure of La Llorona from a necrobaroque point of view: denouncing how private power exercises control over death in Mexico. Taking into account that the politics of death are based on politics of race, this article identifies gestures that has linked indigenous women with melancholy, in order to shatter the national character myth and detach racial melancholy from the labor of mourning carried out by the mothers of the men and women who have gone missing in 21st century in Mexico: a public lamentation that sets this active and politicized female citizens apart. |
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