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When Women Kill / Alia Trabucco Zerán ; translated by Sophie Hughes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trabucco Zerán, Alia, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Homicidas. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women murderers--Chile--History--20th century.
- Women murderers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Coffee House Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: what causes women to lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we-readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment-treat them once they do? Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zerán (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes (Hurricane Season), brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Translator's note: The story behind the English title
- Prologue: Outside the law
- A death for her heart: Corina Rojas
- Under wrath's sway: Rosa Faúndez
- Approaching silence: Carolina Geel
- Part of the family: Teresa Alfaro
- Epilogue: The theater of punishment.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781566896412
- 156689641X
- OCLC:
- 1492943782
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