- Organizado por AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos)
- María Auxiliadora Pérez Vides: “Disposability and Violence against Women: A Noir Resignification in Benjamin Black’s Quirke Series”
Description of the activity.
Drawing from Sarah Ahmed’s postulates about how the classification of beings into their usefulness results into processes of victimisation (2019), and Zygmunt Bauman’s critique of the modern production of “human waste” (2004), this paper aims examined the concomitance of notions of human categorisation and stigmatisation with practices of disposability and violence against women, as predicated in the so-called “Quirke series”. Taken together, the thrillers offer a piercing outlook to the systemic downgrading of women and male appropriation of female corporeality, sustained on patriarchal codes of power, normativity and use. As a result, the stories punctuate that gender asymmetries, discrimination and ultimately violence against women emerged from that oppressive rule, triggering crimes like backstreet abortion and illegal adoption, sexual exploitation and drug dealing, incest or clerical abuse, among others.