I present an approach linked to the bodies of midwives who perform abortions, focusing on the characters of La Bruja, from Temporada de huracanes (2017), by Fernanda Melchor; the grandmother from “Sangre coagulada” (2020), by Mónica Ojeda, and Ndizi, the midwife, from “Matronas” (2012), by Yolanda Arroyo. These characters are adult women who face t...
Women healers throughout history have cultivated knowledge about life-cycles, use of plants and connection with the spiritual world as ways of survival. However, science and the church, protected by the patriarchy, have discredited and persecuted them as witches and superstitious. Despite this, they continue to resist others’ power over their bodie...
Abstract: Literary scholarship has credited the legends collected in Bécquer’s letters Desde mi celda for the writer’s interest in the research and recovery of folklore and popular traditions. However, when approaching these traditional stories, another perspective is possible: Bécquer’s polyphonic narrations are rooted in his wide readings, from w...
El Archivo General de la Nación de México (AGN) es uno de los más ricos repositorios de documentos sobre la Inquisición. Los remedios documentados ahí incluyen una combinación de antídotos populares europeos, indígenas, africanos, y los grupos formados por la miscegenación. La hibridez de estos remedios estrambóticos frecuentemente levantó sospecha...
This article analyzes the trilogy The War of the Witches by Maite Carranza, published between 2005 and 2007. The figure of the witch, traditionally considered an exponent of the monstrous feminine, has emerged as a popular figure in young adult fiction as a vehicle to address identity formation in what has been called “the teenage witch convention’...
Resumen Entre los otomíes de la Sierra Madre Oriental, la cuestión de la alteridad abarca a la vez el ecosistema de los vivos y el dominio ocupado por los moradores del inframundo. Se pondrá énfasis en una exoalteridad, relativa a todos los alteri extranjeros, y en una endoalteridad, incluyendo a los enemigos amenazantes oriundos del mismo círculo ...
Resumen El objetivo de este artículo es demostrar que en la literatura especializada se perfilan modelos de brujerías e imágenes demoniacas que no están en contradicción entre ellos. Al contrario, estos modelos se adscriben en un único patrón europeo, pese a las diferencias concretas de cada caso. Esta investigación se basa en la consulta de docume...
En la Nueva España se perfilan dos o más modelos demoniacos ligados al aquelarre de las brujas: uno sin duda sincrético y autóctono —pero siempre influido por el patrón ibérico— y otro exclusivamente apegado al arquetipo europeo que encuentra en la tradición medieval del viejo mundo su origen. A través de unos documentos de la Inquisición de México...
This article aims to catch a glimpse of the innovative way in which horror reappears in Argentine literature of the last few years by analyzing Los peligros de fumar en la cama, by Mariana Enríquez, particularly in the stories “El Carrito” and “La Virgen de la tosquera”. In this book, which was published in 2009 and includes a dozen short stories, ...
This text narrates the understanding of certain spiritual-healing experiences of contemporary women at the sight of Chicana and indigenous feminist epistemologies. It contains a methodological design that is comprised of interviews and autoethnographic testimonies. The article highlights the construction of a bridge knowledge as a key element in th...
