Espectros del feminicidio: Liminalidad y producción social del espacio en Lomas de Poleo (morir con las alas plegadas) de Edeberto Galindo

• Main Author: Elizabeth Villalobos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò, Prof. Dr. Frank Leinen, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yasmin Temelli, Prof. Dr. Guido Rings 2019-07-01
• Series: iMex. México Interdisciplinario/Interdisciplinary Mexico
• Subjects: Spectrality; feminicide; liminality; neoliberalism; spatiality
• Online Access: https://www.imex-revista.com/xvi-espectros-feminicidio/

This article proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of the play Lomas de Poleo (2002) by Ediberto Galindo through the studies of liminality by Victor Turner and the social construction of space by Henri Lefebvre. This reading allows for the articulation of the complexity of feminicide within the context of the socio-economic spatiality of «glocal» neoliberalism in which Galindo situates the plot of Lomas de Poleo. The article starts from the perspective of the murdered women who constitute the community of ghosts represented in the drama to shed light upon the border’s social realities. The article first analyzes the socio-economic marginality of the protagonists through their incorporation into the ghost community that this article calls «spectral communitas» in which their (in)visibility is emblematic of the marginal modes of economic production circumscribed within the border’s social space and material conditions. Secondly, the analysis proposes the spatiality of Lomas de Poleo’s neighborhood as a place where the representativeness of the bodies of the protagonists is resignified by the techniques of feminicide violence. Finally, Lomas de Poleo problematizes the dehumanization of women and the deregulation of work in the maquiladora industry that transforms the subjectivity of the protagonists into disposable bodies resulting from the necropolitical power of the global economy inscribed on the local border space of Ciudad Juarez.