SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Roberto Bolaño

»Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Spanish: [roˈβeɾto βoˈlaɲo ˈaβalos]; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.« -- More information: Wikipedia

2666

I n f o r m a t i o n

»2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004 as a posthumous novel, a year after Bolaño's death. It is over 1100 pages long in the original Spanish. It is divided into five parts. (...)
The novel revolves around an elusive German author and the unsolved and ongoing murders of women in Santa Teresa, a violent city inspired by Ciudad Juárez and female homicides occurring there. In addition to Santa Teresa, settings and themes include the Eastern Front in World War II, the academic world, mental illness, journalism, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through various characters, locations, periods, and stories within stories. The novel explores rumours, riddles, and lost identities throughout all five parts. (...)
The Part about the Crimes
This part chronicles the murders of 112 women in Santa Teresa from 1993 to 1997 and the lives they lived. It also depicts the police force in their mostly fruitless attempts to solve the crimes, as well as giving clinical descriptions of the circumstances and probable causes of the various homicides. One of the policemen focused on is Juan de Dios Martínez, who is having a relationship with the older Elvira Campo (the director of a sanitarium) and who also has to investigate the case of a man, aptly nicknamed "The Penitent," who keeps urinating and defecating in churches. Klaus Haas (the German femicide suspect Fate was to interview in "the part about Fate") is another of the characters this part focuses on. Haas calls a press conference where he claims that Daniel Uribe, son of a rich local family, is responsible for the murders.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century, 21^st Century | II. Geographical Index: American History: Chilean History, Mexican History | III. Topical Index: Types: Killing: Femicide

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Arellano-Neri, Olimpia. Cinematographic and Literary Representations of the Femicides in Ciudad Juarez. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013.

[Info] Barberán Reinares, Laura. Sex Trafficking in Post Colonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño. New York 2015.

[Info] Bredenberg, Adam J.B. Roberto Bolaño: Horror, Beauty, and the Infrareal. BPhil Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2013.

[Info] Cabrera García, Elisa. »«La parte de los crímenes» en 2666: La visibilización del concepto «feminicidio» como política de la literatura.« Revista Letral 16 (2016): 28-39.

[Info] Cabrera García, Elisa. »Feminicidio y violencia sistémica en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño.« Cuadernos Fronterizos 14 (2018): 8-10.

[Info] Carrasco Luján, Carmen. »Cuerpos de mujeres como desechos del neoliberalismo: Los feminicidios en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño.« Trans No. 26 (2021).

[Info] Carrasco Luján, Carmen. »Which Women’s Murders Are “Grievable”? On the Media’s Frames and Feminicides in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666.« Violent Times, Rising Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Gender Perspective. Edited by Dominique Grisard. Zurich 2022: 39-49.

[Info] Groß, Angelika. »Literatur + Gewalt: Zur Darstellung der Frauenmorde in Mexiko in Roberto Bolaños 2666.« apropos No. 1 (2018): 89-107.

[Info] Gumanay, Jorisse C. »Degeneration of Society as an Apocalyptic Symptom: Gender-Driven Crime and Violence in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666.« Journal of Language and Literature 23 (2023): 1-12.

[Info] Hernández Guzmán, Daniel. »Más allá de los feminicidios: Violencia y cuerpo femenino en “La parte de los crímenes” de Roberto Bolaño.« Cuadernos de Literatura 20 (2016): 621-635.

[Info] Holzer, Virginia, et al. »“Cuerpo de mujer, peligro de muerte”: Residuos humanos en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño y Chicas muertas de Selva Almada.« Moara No. 59 (2021): 186-202.

[Info] Karić, Verka. »Feminicidio en la novela 2666 de Roerto Bolaño.« Investigaciones interculturales de jóvenes hispanistas en Serbia: Actas de la Tercera conferencia nacional de hispanistas serbios, celebrada el 9 y el 10 de abril de 2022 en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Novi Sad). Edited by Bojana K. Petrović et al. Novi Sad 2024: 26-42.

[Info] López, Alfred J. »Scenes from the Global South: Women’s Bodies as Waste in Bolaño’s 2666.« Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 6 (2020): 1-13.

[Info] Ramírez, Susana F. »Violencia feminicida en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño.« Letras No. 135 (2021): 66-77.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Groß, Angelika. »Literatur und Gewalt: Zur Darstellung der Frauenmorde in Mexiko in Roberto Bolaños 2666.« Ringvorlesung des Instituts für Romanistik der Universität Rostock: "Romanistik aktuell". Rostock 2018.