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Meaning Out Of Nothing: A Penta-Dimensional Framework To Understand The Feminicides Of Roberto Bolaño’S 2666 As Evidence For The (Non-)Existence Of God, Cody Chun
Summer Research
My research examines the concept of the void in the fiction of Roberto Bolaño. I devote particular attention to the posthumous novel 2666, which concerns the real life murders of women in Ciudad Juárez. Informed by readings in philosophy and theology, I use the void to center two antithetical penta-dimensional frameworks that constitute five areas of qualitative assessment in an interpretation of the feminicides: being/non-being, goodness/evil, fate/coincidence, order/chaos, the existence of God/the non-existence of God. I use these paradigms to read the feminicides portrayed by the novel as evidence for the existence or non-existence of God. In the dialectic …
Mapping A Geography Of Hell: Evil, Neoliberalism, And The Femicides In Roberto Bolaño's 2666, Juan Velasco, Tanya Schmidt
Mapping A Geography Of Hell: Evil, Neoliberalism, And The Femicides In Roberto Bolaño's 2666, Juan Velasco, Tanya Schmidt
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In his posthumously published novel 2666, Bolaño addresses the consequences of economic neoliberalism in the U.S.-Mexico border through the fictional city of Santa Teresa. Santa Teresa represents Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the location of over 500 femicides between 1993 and 2008 and a place named both the "murder capital of the world" and a "model of globalization." Santa Teresa is at the core of the novel's conception of evil. This paper analyzes the influences of Charles Baudelaire and Marquis de Sade in Bolaño's representation of Santa Teresa. This paper also argues that, rather than ending the novel with a solution, Bolaño's …