Border, Drug Traffic and Gender: the Alternative Heroines of Mexican Violence’s Fictionalization

Violence and power are two concepts we assign to the masculine field. However, we see that more and more often, a young woman is chosen to play the main character in history in the range of fictional works produced in Mexico. Taking as a starting point this new trend, the work will be based on three novels whose similarities and differences in the construction of the main character will show new creative leads: Diablo Guardián (2003) by Xavier Velasco, Señales que precederán el fin del mundo (2009) by Yuri Herrera y Perra Brava (2010) by Orfa Alarcón