Crime Fiction and Gender in Otra máscara de Esperanza (2015) by Adriana González Mateos
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https://doi.org/10.32112/2174.2464.2019.335Keywords:
Crime fiction, Gender identities, Detective fiction gente, Female bodies, Women, Violence, Contemporary Mexican literature, Adriana González Mateos, Esperanza López MateosAbstract
The interest in crime fiction in Mexico has grown simultaneously with the rates of violence, in recent decades. However, despite the fact that gender violence has persistently increased, the treatment of the female body of the victims or the role of women as structural elements of this genre have not undergone major changes. In this paper, we analyze Adriana González Mateos' Otra máscara de Esperanza (2015), in order to illustrate how this female author reinterprets the detective fiction genre. We answer, mainly, two questions: what does the reader discover in relation to the death of Esperanza López Mateos, regardless of who is to blame? And how does the body of crime disrupt both the literary genre and the cultural notions of gender as a relational category?
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