Citation

Waldman G. Taller Letras 2012; (50): 119-128.

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(Copyright © 2012)

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Abstract

The following text analizes the novel Morena en rojo,written by the mexican-argentinian author Miriam Laurini. Published in 1994, it adresses one of the most stabbing problems of nowadays Mexico: child and teenagers trafficking, masterminded and executed by plenty of criminal networks, -translated into ilegal adoptions, exploitation, prostitution, pornography and sexual abuse (including rape and murder), pederasty, etc.- exposing the legal and policial inefficency and corruption, along with the lack of sensitivity of the authorities and even of society. The novel labels under the noir genre, with great global reach, for the latter allows the narration -and denounce- of a society in which the links between politics and corruption get narrower as time goes by. The novel is particularly important given the low number of female mexican authors that explore the noir gender, unlike it is in other countries. Equally interesting is the perspective of the gender present in the novel. The narrative is in charge of a female journalist who goes across different Mexican states investigating child trafficking, and in the meantime, she registers the life of different female characters who suffer, in many ways, the weight of social violence (which goes hand in hand with politic violence) in a country in which, nowadays, the job of a journalist has become a dangerous one thanks to the almost uncontrollable violence that dominates most of the social environments. In this country; and because of the latter, policial press notes have become front-page news.