Writing Violence Against Women. Feminism, Affect and Hospitality

Abstract

This article examines three contemporary Argentine literary works involved in discussions about the social status of sexist violence and its visibility politics. From a perspective framed in the feminist movement and its affective networks, our analysis focus on Beya (le viste la cara a Dios), by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara e Iñaki Echeverría (2013), Chicas muertas, by Selva Almada (2014) and Por qué volvías cada verano, by Belén López Peiró (2018). These are works that address classic feminist issues – prostitution, femicide and rape– producing torsions in social places, in the possibilities of speaking, and in the archives. They not only mark the social scheme that produces violence –and those responsible for it– but also display resistance politicies that allow women to imagine themselves beyond victimization in a loving collective.