Breaking the silence: the strange case of an eco-cosmopolitan Chicana detective.

Pérez-Ramos, M. Isabel

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Breaking the silence: the strange case of an eco-cosmopolitan Chicana detective.

dc.contributor.author	Pérez-Ramos, M. Isabel
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-06T07:40:34Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-06T07:40:34Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.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.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	17	es
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of English Studies, Vol.22 (1), 2022	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.477221
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/123067
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Eco-cosmopolitan stranger	es
dc.subject	Willfulness	es
dc.subject	Positive socio-environmental change	es
dc.subject	New mestiza	es
dc.subject	US Mexico border	es
dc.subject	Desert blood	es
dc.subject	Crime fiction	es
dc.subject	NAFTA	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::80 - Cuestiones generales relativas a la lingüística y literatura. Filología	es
dc.title	Breaking the silence: the strange case of an eco-cosmopolitan Chicana detective.	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es