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                                                       Special Issue 
          Fifty Shades of Latin American Noir: Alternative Models of Criminality and Detection
                                               Guest Editor: Carolina Miranda

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Proceso de tejido en telar de cintura por Miguel Ángel Sosme

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Ámbitos Feministas

Spring Issue 13, 2025

Link to Issue 13, 2025 

The annual peer-reviewed journal Ámbitos Feministas has been published since 2011. Initially, it was a print-only publication (ISSN 2164-0998), but starting with the 2023 issue, it is now published exclusively online. All issues are available on Academia, and issues published from 2023 onward are also available here. All are indexed in EBSCO.

Ámbitos Feministas on Academia  

ÍNDICE-CONTENTS

Special Issue: Fifty Shades of Latin American Noir: Alternative Models of Criminality and Detection. Guest Editor: Carolina Miranda Editorial, pp. 13-14.

Carolina Miranda. Introduction: Fifty Shades of Latin American Noir: Alternative Models of Criminality and Detection, pp. 15-22.

Victoria Ríos Castaño. Who Killed the Writer? Intratextual Clues in Cristina Rivera Garza’s ‘El perfil de él,’ pp. 23-40.

Diana Aramburu. Rewriting Childhood Trauma: Healing in Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Lesbian Crime Fiction, pp. 41-58

Mariana Oggioni and Carolina Miranda. From Another World? The Policewoman in the Works of Melina Torres, pp. 41-58.

Carlos Uxo. Ena Lucía Portela’s Cien botellas en una pared, Beyond End-Oriented Readings, pp. 59-76.

Katherine Ostrom. More than a Pile of Bodies: Women as Investigators, Victims, and Witnesses in the Novels of Patrícia Melo and Eliana Alves Cruz, pp. 77-94.

Kate Quinn. New Women’s Voices in Chilean Detective Fiction: Paula Ilabaca, Valeria Vargas and Julia Guzmán, pp. 95-112.

Karina Lemes and Carolina Miranda. Ladies in Noir: Amateur Investigators, Unprofessional Criminals, and Police Detectives in Contemporary Crime Narratives from the River Plate, pp. 113-130.

CRÍTICA-ESSAYS     

Evelyn S. Autry. Challenging Constructions of Masculinity in Mayra Santos Febres’s Cualquier miércoles soy tuya, pp. 131-150.

Ariadna N. Tenorio L. House of Madness: Neoliberal Control and Feminist Resistance in Aline Pettersson’s Querida Familia, pp. 151-166.

Aned Ladino. Sonic Homeplace: Afro-Female Resistance and Reparations in Lido Pimienta’s Miss Colombia (2020), pp. 167-184.

TRADUCCIÓN-TRANSLATION

Kimberly Moreira. Chocolates in the Snow: Lamija’s Story, pp. 185-208.

Wladimir Chávez Vaca. Chocolates en la nieve: la historia de Lamija, pp. 209-214.

SECCIÓN LITERARIA-LITERATURE

Daniela Becerra Romo. Fecha de caducidad, pp. 215-222.

Tina Escaja. Nombrar el cosmos, pp. 223-224.

RESEÑAS-BOOKS REVIEWS

Paola Uparela. Elena Deanda-Camacho. Ofensiva a los oídos piadosos: obscenidad y censura en la poesía española y novohispana del siglo XVIII. Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2022, p. 225.

Ana I. Simón Alegre. Andrea García González. Calla y olvida. Violencias, conflicto vasco y la escucha vulnerable como propuesta feminista. Katakrak Liburuak, 2023, p. 229.

Carmen García Armero. Sharon Keefe Ugalde. Ophelia. Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain. U of Wales P, 2020, p. 231.

Pilar Cabrera Fonte. María del Mar López-Cabrales and María R. Matz, eds. Carmen Boullosa. In Between Brooklyn and Coyoacán. Vernon P., 2024, p. 233.

Jorge Marco. Ana Luengo. Mi bien esquivo. Ediciones Carena, 2023, p. 236.

Ana Hontanilla. Jesus Montaño, and Regan Postma-Montaño. Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature. U of New Mexico P, 2022, and Kelli D. Zaytoun. Shapeshifting Subjects: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Naguala and Border Arte. U of Illinois P, 2022, pp. 238.

Nuria Torres López. Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Lou Charnon-Deutsch, eds. Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the “Chicas Raras.” Routledge, 2022, p. 240.

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