I a DYNAMO of VIOLENT STORIES: READING the FEMINICIDIOS of CIUDAD JUÁREZ AS NARRATIVES
A DYNAMO OF VIOLENT STORIES: READING THE FEMINICIDIOS OF CIUDAD JUÁREZ AS NARRATIVES by Roberto Ponce-Cordero Bachelor in History, Literature, and Media Theory, University of Hamburg, 2003 Master of Arts in Hispanic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh, 2009 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh 2016 i UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH KENNETH P. DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES This dissertation was presented by Roberto Ponce-Cordero It was defended on December 8, 2016 and approved by Hermann Herlinghaus, Ph.D., University of Freiburg Juan Duchesne-Winter, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh John Beverley, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Dissertation Director: Áurea María Sotomayor-Miletti, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh ii Copyright © by Roberto Ponce-Cordero 2016 iii A DYNAMO OF VIOLENT STORIES: READING THE FEMINICIDIOS OF CIUDAD JUÁREZ AS NARRATIVES Roberto Ponce-Cordero, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2016 Over the past twenty-three years, several hundreds of women have been kidnapped, tortured and murdered with absolute impunity in Ciudad Juárez, an urban Moloch on the Mexican- American border. Because of these crimes, the city has become a symbol for all of what is wrong with globalization, transnational exploitation and the Latin American form of masculine domination known as machismo. Terms like femicidios or feminicidios have been coined in order to express that women, far from being this crime wave’s collateral damage, are rather their specific target, and that their sex is the factor that gives this vortex of violence its inner logic and coherence.
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