Las homicidas / When Women Kill

Alia Trabucco Zeran

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Mexico
Published
22 November 2022
Pages
232
ISBN
9786073818438

Las homicidas / When Women Kill

Alia Trabucco Zeran

Cuatro chilenas que, a lo largo del siglo veinte, cometieron impactantes homicidios protagonizan los casos que la escritora Alia Trabucco Zeran investigo durante anos para escribir estos ensayos que trazan un relato inquietante y provocador: el de como la sociedad, los medios y el poder reaccionaron frente a estas criminales que rompieron, violentamente, con el lugar domestico y pasivo que se les tenia reservado. Un libro que, con una prosa concisa y reflexiva, cuestiona radicalmente aquello que hemos asumido como normal.

En un momento en que el feminismo se ha tomado las calles para denunciar las dimensiones epidemicas de la violencia de genero, el por que escribir ahora sobre mujeres asesinas no es una pregunta trivial , se plantea Alia Trabucco Zeran, y la busqueda de una respuesta es justamente lo que subyace en estas paginas sutiles e inteligentes, en las que las narraciones de los crimenes dialogan con un texto ficcional y, tambien, con los diarios que la autora llevo mientras investigaba y donde quedan planteados los obstaculos y dilemas a los que se enfrento al abordar un tema tan incomodo como revelador.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zeran offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts and victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we-readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment-treat them when they do?

Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zeran (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes, brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women.

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