RT Book, Section
T1 The Queen Without Kingdom: Vulnerability, Martyrization, Monolingualism and Injury Toward a Quechua-Speaking Woman Imprisoned in Argentina
A1 Rodríguez Blanco, Sergio
A2 Harmes, Marcus
A2 Harmes, Meredith
A2 Harmes, Barbara
AB “The Queen of Los Hornos” (La Reina de Los Hornos) by the journalist Natalie Iriarte tells the story of Reina Maraz (her name means “queen”). She is a “Bolivian, poor, migrant, dark-skinned, Quechua-speaking, illiterate and evangelist woman” who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Argentina in November 2010. Reina waited more than a year until December 2011, for an interpreter to tell her she was accused of the murder of her husband. The whole character of Reina is expressed in her vulnerability linked to her identity as a Quechua speaker: She is a woman who cannot defend herself because she does not understand the dominant language. Using CDA as a method, the research question of this chapter is how does the text “The queen of Los Hornos” represent Reina’s identity in terms of her vulnerability? This chapter will highlight the discrimination and vulnerability of Reina caused by her multiple minority identities and show that the journalist reproduces, perhaps unconsciously, the same paternalistic discourse of power that considers Reina as an extremely weak human being.
PB Palgrave Macmillan
SN 9783030360580
SN 9783030360597
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132503
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132503
LA eng
NO Rodríguez-Blanco, S. (2020). The Queen Without Kingdom: Vulnerability, Martyrization, Monolingualism and Injury Toward a Quechua-Speaking Woman Imprisoned in Argentina. In: Harmes, M., Harmes, M., Harmes, B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7_19
NO Convocatoria competitiva de Investigación Científica, Humanística y Tecnológica 2019 de la Universidad Iberoamericana de México
DS Docta Complutense
RD 19 mar 2026