“Terminar de convertirse en aquello que moriría siendo”: la novela "Furia" de Clyo Mendoza a la luz de lo contra-forense
“To Finish Becoming What It Would Be Dying While Being”: Clyo Mendoza’s Novel Furia in Light of Counter-Forensics

Summary/Abstract: This essay contextualizes Furia, by Clyo Mendoza, in light of the contemporary proliferation of counter-forensics. In the face of the violence that has restructured Mexican society in recent decades, there is a notable presence of resistance movements, multimedia journalism, documentary films, as well as works of art based on forensic practices and approaches. These manifestations seek to redefine our ways of looking, reconstructing, and narrating and, therefore, of thinking about and understanding violence, as they outline counter-hegemonic perspectives and articulate latent realities in the public sphere. The narrative structure and symbolic dimension of Furia fuse a counter-forensic perspective in order to objectify the language and codes that operate as a structural substrate of violence. Hence, Furia’s work on language instrumentalizes the forensic gaze to question sensory, affective, and epistemic orders, and sensitizes its readers to patriarchal violence.

• Details
• Contents