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    Counterhistory in the literature of Juárez

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    Author
    Burger, Hans
    Keyword
    Alicia Gaspar de Alba
    Roberto Bolaño
    crimes against women
    Mexico
    literary criticism
    literary interpretation
    fiction
    Ciudad Juárez
    murder victims in literature
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11355
    Abstract
    Counterhistory in the Literature of Juárez deals with three novels portraying a series of unsolved murders in the city of Juárez, Mexico, including Stella Pope Duarte's If I Die in Juárez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders, and Roberto Bolano's 2666. The author argues that each novel creates an alternate historical record of the murders, as well as conditions in the city at large, which counters the understanding of the crimes which has been imposed by hegemonic forces in the Mexican and American governments. Because of their oppositional tactics, the author terms all three novels counterhistories, a word with complex and sometimes contradictory meanings in both literary criticism and metahistorical thought. The author explores various ideas of counterhistory and documents the ways each novel fulfills a counterhistorical purpose, as well as the ways in which the unique qualities of the novelistic form empower the creation of oppositional and polemical meanings.
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    Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011
    Table of Contents
    Introduction -- 1. Authenticity and the negative sublime in "If I die in Juárez" -- 2. Direct and indirect truth in "Desert blood: the Juárez murders" -- 3. The banality of evil in 2666 -- Conclusion -- Works cited.
    Date
    2011-05
    Type
    Thesis
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