Non-normative motherhood, Violence and forced disappearances in Casas vacías, by Brenda Navarro

Leonardo-Loayza R. · Desde el Sur (2022) · DOI: 10.21142/des-1403-2022-0032

Resumen

It is intended to demonstrate that the novel Casas vacías (2020) by Brenda Navarro presents a questioning of the traditional notion of motherhood, which assumes this activity as a biological and instinctive matter, and in which every woman, by virtue of being a mother, knows exactly how to exercise it. This questioning is personified by the figure of the non-normative mother, who cannot or does not want to fulfill the mandates that society establishes to be considered a «good mother». Likewise, it is desired to demonstrate that in this novel the subject of violence in Mexico is addressed, but emphasis is placed on one of its less visible manifestations: forced disappearances. The novel denounces the situation of abandonment suffered by the mothers of the disappeared by society and the State.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal