A violência contra a mulher na literatura contemporânea argentina

Abstract

According to the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean, in 2021, 11 countries recorded a feminicide rate above a victim per 100.000 women, and Argentina is the third position in the ranking in absolute numbers, preceded by Brazil and Mexico. Contemporary Latin American literature has been reverberating around gender violence as the central focus of narratives. Thus, it is examined in this article two Argentinean literary productions: Le viste la cara a Dios, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, and Garotas mortas, by Selva Almada. For the purposes of theoretical underpinning, the analysis by Rita Laura Segato, Marcela Lagarde y de Los Ríos, Esther Pineda and Diana Russell regarding feminicide are used, as well as the theoretician Diana Russell. It is discussed in the final considerations, having the literary texts analysed as the basis, how the patriarchal structure rooted in Latin American society is responsible for gender violence.