Infrarealist journalism of Mexican female authorsinformation meets literature in The Sorrows of Mexico

  1. María Alonso Alonso 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Revista:
Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies

ISSN: 1468-2737

Ano de publicación: 2018

Volume: 19

Número: 4

Páxinas: 382-398

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.1080/14682737.2018.1492671 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Outras publicacións en: Hispanic Research Journal: Iberian and Latin American Studies

Resumo

This article explores the nature of ‘infrarealist journalism’ through the contributions of female journalists to The Sorrows of Mexico (2016). Terms such as ‘subalternity’, ‘historiographic metafiction’, ‘brutal realism’ and ‘grassroots activism’ emerge naturally from this anthology of short stories and testimonies. The texts under analysis illustrate the state of emergency in which Mexico seems to be trapped due to the increase of violent crimes and the corruption that leaves these unpunished. After a historical and conceptual contextualization to infrarealist journalism, the different sections of this study will centre upon the narrative strategies followed by Anabel Hernández, Marcela Turati, and Lydia Cacho, whose texts suggest that activism is one of the most effective strategies to counteract the violence that emerges from Mexico today.

Fonte de datos: Dialnet