Do feminicídio à escritura em Cristina Rivera Garza

Abstract

The representation of the female body appears in literature, traditionally, anchored in the echo of the writing of authors who, from their multiple privileges, have shaped perceptions. Contemporarily, however, women writers from the Global South, in particular, have (re)taken for themselves the right to self-representation, in a frank process of denouncing colonialities. In this context, the concept of body-territory helps us to understand how authors such as Cristina Rivera Garza problematize the violence implicated in the bodies of each as an operation on collective bodies through traumatic inscriptions, constituting symbolic crossroads where the violated body of women becomes a concept-image, highlighting unavoidable knowledge, alliances and powers. This is what we want to discuss in our analysis, based on the work "Liliana's Invincible Summer" (2022), in which Garza, through necro-writing and the poetics of dispossession, offers a possible way around the fractures, both objective and subjective, experienced as a result of the femicide committed against her younger sister more than 30 years ago in Mexico. We believe that this author's writing can point to the reorganization of political spaces through literature, as it highlights the abuses and gender violence imposed on female bodies-territories, reworking experiences through affections, struggles and resistance.