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Mujer y pacto fáustico en el narcomundo

2010; Routledge; Volume: 57; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/08831157.2010.496346

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Francisca González Flores,

Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Abstract This article explores cinematic and literary representations of modern, nonsubmissive female figures, generated as a reaction to the violent life conditions created by the drug trafficking in countries such as México and Colombia. The construction of the female protagonists of three fictional works dealing with the drug world (the films La vendedora de rosas by Víctor Gaviria and María llena eres de gracia by Joshua Marston, and the novel La Reina del Sur by Arturo Pérez Reverte) presents the reader/viewer with the paradoxical way in which these female figures regain their agency and their social and generic independence through active participation in the abusive, male-dominated world of narcotrafficking. This article also examines the viewpoint of the directors/writer, and how their artistic involvement with the subject is used as an expression of social activism (Gaviria) or of an endorsement of capitalism and the global market (Marston and Pérez Reverte).