Haunted Bodies: Spectrality, Gender Violence and the Central American Female Migrant in Recent Mexican Cinema

The ghostly, the spectral and the idea of haunting as theoretical framework has been previously used to discuss violence(s) in Latin America (Petersen / Ribas-Casasayas 2016, Hopenhayn 2002) as well as gendered violence in Mexico (Petersen 2016). I argue that the spectral allows recent Mexican films...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olivia Cosentino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò, Prof. Dr. Frank Leinen, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yasmin Temelli, Prof. Dr. Guido Rings 2019-07-01
Series:iMex. México Interdisciplinario/Interdisciplinary Mexico
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Online Access:https://www.imex-revista.com/xvi-haunted-bodies-female-migrant/