Chicana literature and the deconstruction of spaces. Its the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the chihuahua desert outside of juarez. The book has won both a lambda literary foundation award for best lesbian mystery and a latino book award for best englishlanguage mystery. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading desert blood. The juarez murders, was released in march 2005 by arte publico press. Desert blood, calligraphy of the witch, sor juanas second dream. Transnationalism and chicana literature utrecht university.
The juarez murders to be as good as it is, still, i wanted a better novel. The novel takes place in 1998 when juarez, mexico is experiencing a spate of brutal killings of poor young women and girls, mostly factory workers. The video that talked about curfew the mexican perspective starting in 1993 maquiladoras started to pop up in mexico because of nafta. Cultural politics and the cara exhibition university of texas press, 1998. An incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the us mexico border. Desert blood weaves together its fictional tale and the known facts of these notorious crimes in a way that reveals the cultural and political attitudes that have allowed these murders to continue with the indifferenceif not the outright complicityof mexican authorities. The juarez murders kindle edition by alicia gaspar. Desert blood download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Its the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the chihuahua desert outside of juarez, mexico, just across the. The mexican maquiladora industry employs more 80% of women in more than 300 plants women who needed jobs began. This is an incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the usmexico border. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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