Entre víctimas y victimarios… desollar, enmascarar, encarar

Authors

  • Iván Ruiz Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/11329

Keywords:

victimization, documentary, violence, imagination, drug trafficking

Abstract

This article questions a predominant narrative promoted by the Mexican State since 2006 with the war it held against different drug trafficking groups, which is the categorical opposition between victims and victimizers. Those categories deal with the connotations of pain and horror they embody respectively. The aim is to revisit the dynamic processes between the unimaginable and the openness to the imaginable. To do so, we will analyse a number of fragments of two documentary films: La libertad del diablo by Everardo González (2017) and Soles negros by Julien Elie (2018). Here we explore the symbolic processes of dealing with the recent violence in this country.

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Published

2020-07-24

How to Cite

Ruiz, I. (2020). Entre víctimas y victimarios… desollar, enmascarar, encarar. Confluenze. Rivista Di Studi Iberoamericani, 12(1), 29–42. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/11329

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020): NARCOCULTURAS. La construcción de un imaginario entre discurso hegemónico y nuevas narrativas de la violencia

Section

DOSSIER

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