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Unlawful Violence - Mexican Law and Cultural Production (Hardcover)
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Unlawful Violence - Mexican Law and Cultural Production (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Mexican Studies
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Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders
were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017. The abundance of laws
and constitutional amendments that have cropped up in response are
mirrored in Mexico's fragmented cultural production of the same
period. Contemporary Mexican literature grapples with this
splintered reality through non-linear stories from multiple
perspectives, often told through shifts in time. The novels, such
as Jorge Volpi's Una novela criminal [A Novel Crime] (2018) and
JuliAn Herbert's La casa del dolor ajeno [The House of the Pain of
Others] (2015) take multiple perspectives and follow non-linear
plotlines; other examples, such as the very short stories in
!Basta! 100 mujeres contra la violencia de gEnero [Enough! 100
Women against Gender-Based Violence] (2013), also present multiple
perspectives. Few scholars compare cultural production and legal
texts in situations like Mexico, where extreme violence coexists
with a high number of human rights laws. Unlawful Violence measures
fictional accounts of human rights against new laws that include
constitutional amendments to reform legal proceedings, laws that
protect children, laws that condemn violence against women, and
laws that protect migrants and indigenous peoples. It also explores
debates about these laws in the Mexican house of representatives
and senate, as well as interactions between the law and the Mexican
public.
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