Abstract

VASQUEZ MEJIAS, Ainhoa. Femicides in the Chilean Border: the Case of Alto Hospicio. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.53-74. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v18n1.54679.

Between 1999 and 2001, several adolescents disappeared in the northern part of Chile and, later on, they were found dead. The novel Alto Hospicio (2008) by Rodrigo Ramos Bañados recreates these femicides from the viewpoint of the accomplice of the only person indicted for these crimes. This article argues that the writer uses the notion of border as a critical apparatus, to destabilize spatial, symbolic and textual barriers usually grouped in four axes: Bolivia-Chile, saints-whores, rationality-madness, fiction-reality. Thus, the novel questions and deconstructs limits to refer to these femicides from an undetermined position that works as mirror of the uncertainty and irresolution of this case in Chilean justice.

Keywords : femicide; border; reality; fiction; prostitution.

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