THE ROLE OF FEMINIST LITERATURE IN JUDICIAL TRAINING: A READING OF LAS COSAS QUE PERDIMOS EN EL FUEGO, BY MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ

Abstract

The objective of this work is to give an account of the importance and role of literature —particularly, the narrative in a feminist key— in the formation and jurisdictional practice from the novel Las cosa que perdimos en el fuego, by the Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez. For this, the text is studied, which presents the inequalities and violence to which Latin American women have been victims with a tone of horror and feminism, from the methodological perspective of the “Law and Literature Movement”, especially from the intersec- tion of law in literature, in a hermeneutic and iusphilosophical di- mension. The purpose is to show the importance of the triangulation between the categories: law, literature and feminisms; as well as em- phasizing the premise that feminist literary fiction can be useful to guide judges in their decisions and in the administration of justice.