The "Niña-niña": Expressiveness and Legibility of Gender Violence in Los divinos by Laura Restrepo

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Published: Jun 24, 2022
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Laura Restrepo, femicide, girls, Los divinos, gender violence

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Nadia V. Celis Salgado
Bowdoin College

Abstract

Los divinos offers an exceptional picture to evaluate the place of girls in the discourse written on female bodies by sexist violence. Restrepo resorts to the archetype of the "monster," which she contrasts with that of the "Niña-niña," to expose the violence intrinsic to a society that idealizes dominant masculinity. Restrepo refutes the uniqueness attributed to the femicide of Yuliana Samboní, which she places as a mirror of the culture of violence in Colombia. Her sacralization of the "Niña-nina" also reveals the limits imposed by the mythification of innocence on the defense of women's rights.

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No. 59 (2022)
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Author Biography

Nadia V. Celis Salgado, Bowdoin College

Associate Professor at Bowdoin College. Her research focuses on the representation of bodies, sexuality and intimacy in Caribbean literature, and has published numerous articles on authors such as Fanny Buitrago, Marvel Moreno and Gabriel García Márquez. She is co-editor of Lección errante: Mayra Santos-Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo (2011), and author of La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal” (2015), winner of the Nicolás Guillén Award of the CPA.