Publication: Breaking the silence: the strange case of an eco-cosmopolitan Chicana detective.
Authors
Pérez-Ramos, M. Isabel
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Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.477221
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Abstract
This article analyzes the strange eco-cosmopolitan detective attributes of Ivon, the protagonist in Alicia Gaspar
de Alba’s 2005 novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders. Through this willful, queer, and feminist mestiza
character, who continually trespasses and transgresses cultural borders, Gaspar de Alba challenges the standards
of crime fiction in numerous ways, as argued in this paper. Moreover, she also manages to expose the transnational
dimension of the exploitation, mistreatment, and even murder of women in Ciudad Juárez. Simultaneously, Ivon’s
eco-cosmopolitanism acknowledges how the expendability thinking of free trade that partly sanctions the murder
of women, also results in the environmental degradation of, and the free flow of toxins and pollution in the border.
Ultimately, Ivon’s strange, eco-cosmopolitan investigative traits, serve as the tools to break the silence and start
confronting the feminicides in Ciudad Juárez as well as the socio-environmental exploitation of the US-Mexico
border region, fostering a positive socio-environmental change.
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Citation
International Journal of English Studies, Vol.22 (1), 2022
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